예언과 문명비판의 시－「시빌의 잎사귀」와 「재림」

초록

What effect does mysticism play on literature? The mysterious effect increases the poetic ambiguity, and the effect makes the artistic beauty deeper. We can clearly find mysticism in two poems of G. M. Hopkins and W. B. Yeats. Hopkins was a priest who praised and honored God his whole life and Yeats also had much interest in religious mysticism such as Druism. In Hopkins’s rarely read poem “Spelt from Cibyl’s Leave,” we can see mysticism clearly expressed, and a good critique of civilization too. The increasing darkness in this poem seem to represent the spiritual depravity of this wold. Yeats also wrote “The Second Coming” to critique 20th century civilization. The beginning of the 20th century was an uneasy time with the emergence of evil political powers. By analyzing these two poems, we can taste the poetic beauty and symbolism which was used to express mystically the decay and corruption of civilization.

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