죽음을 다룬 시 고찰: 예이츠와 히니를 중심으로

Although Yeats and Heaney believe in survival after death, they express it in different aspects. Yeats seems to think death is a threshold through which man goes toward the aesthetical dimension. Meanwhile Heaney’s exploration of death like Aeneus in Vergil’s Aeneid reaches the final insight in his last poetry collection Human Chain, where he shows his belief that our life continues like a chain by the inherited energy. And Heaney’s death-themed poems have such a feature that they are written in various ways of genres-elegy, sonnet and pastiche.