Date of Award
1973
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract
W. B. Yeats conceived a progression of Masks which he placed upon women he knew and presented as images in his poetry. Between the mystical Rose and Dancer images of his early and late work occur three Masks of flesh and- blood women--the Muse-goddess, the Duchess of Urbino, and the Audacious Old Woman. In relation to each of these, Yeats assumes a Mask of his own--the Poet-lover, the Courtier, several Old Men--and establishes a ritual relationship by which he dramatizes the opposing tensions he believed to exist between men and women . These tensions lie in oppositions of will, intellect, and creative genius. Yeats's ideal--ultimately unrealized--was to achieve complement, co-creation, and, finally, perfect union in the male-female relationship.
Extent
94 p.
Recommended Citation
KLINE, GLORIA CORNELIA, "RECIPROCAL RITUAL: THE FUNCTION OF WOMEN IN THE IMAGINATION OF W. B. YEATS. (IRELAND)" (1973). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1970 - 1979. 223.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_2/223
Identifier
FADT13553
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters