신역사주의로 읽는 W. B. 예이츠의 부활절봉기 시편들

This study aims to read Yeats’s poems about the Easter Rising in Ireland by applying New Historicism. Based on existing research into them, I try to analyze the poet’s complex and multi-layered attitude toward the political situation in Ireland at the time. The previous studies of Yeats’s Easter poems generally focused on three issues: Cultural Nationalism, conflicts between classes on social issues, and independence movement from British rule. While actively accepting these three trends, I would like to make up some lack of detailed discussions on the specific situations through contextual research. In order to supplement this, I will actively refer to New Historicism to expand the interpretation of the poems and to better understand the direction of Yeats’s Cultural Nationalism. Overall, this research focuses on how historical and cultural situations of the time could be related with his Easter Rising poems.