전쟁과 사회: 드포의『몰 플랜더즈』와 예이츠의「내전기의 사색」

The paper compares Daniel Defoe and W. B. Yeats in their attitude to the war. Defoe points out the evils of war from a social point of view while Yeats is so frustrated that he cannot get involved in the historical moment and only tries to find comfort in art. Defoe’s Moll Flanders (1722) is located at the intersection of war, society, and women’s lives. In the absence of a male family head due to the war, the situation in which family support is wholly dependant on women, which has come to be a greater pressure for poor women. Instead of blaming individuals for the origin of crime, Defoe sought to discover its roots in society. Yeats’s “The Meditations in Time of Civil War” (1923) illustrates anti-British sentiment, resistance, and the disillusionment of a helpless self in the face of a violence caused by wars in Ireland. Yeats himself finds solace in writing poetry, feeling skeptical about the limitations of not transcending reality. He, not being able to participate directly in the scene of history, finds solace for a moment while writing poetry.