The Tower, published in 1928, is Yeats's finest single volume of poetry, and it might also be the finest single book of poems published in the twentieth century (O'Donnell 89). Many poems of the volume confront the problems of growing old. This paper attempts to read three poems selected from The Tower--"Sailing to Byzantium," "The Tower," and "Among School Children"--in terms of their representations of old age and its relation to desire and the imagination. In "Sailing to Byzantium," the poet begins by declaring that Ireland is "no country for old men." He complains that here all are "caught in that sensual music" and "neglect monuments of unageing intellect." "The Tower" also begins with the poet's confused question: "What shall I do with this absurdity . . . this caricature, decrepit age?" He complains about his old age because it makes his body "a sort of battered kettle at the heel," and that body can deride his imagination and its work. The poet's complaint or anxiety about old age in these poems comes from the fact that his old age and bodily decrepitude make it hard to satisfy his desire. In "Sailing to Byzantium," lack of satisfaction makes him unhappy in Ireland and wish to leave. Also in "The Tower," unsatisfied desire makes his heart "troubled," and so he is even tempted to give up poetry and choose philosophy. However, ironically enough, unsatisfied desire makes his imagination stronger than ever. Now, in spite of his bodily decrepitude, his imagination enables him to travel to the "holy city" of Byzantium, and there pray to the sages there that he may be changed into a golden bird, "an artifice of eternity." In "The Tower," the poet sends his imagination forth and calls "images and memories" to ask questions of them. In the process of calling images and asking questions, the poet restores his belief in the power of the imagination, and, because of this belief, he can leave his "pride" and "faith" as poet to the "young upstanding men" of Ireland. "Among School Children" confronts the problem of physical ageing a little differently. The poem shows the poet walking through the schoolroom and dreaming of "a Ledaean body" (Maud Gonne). His imagining her as a child and then thinking of "her present image" leads to the meditation not only on the general human fate of ageing but also on the images which "break hearts" because they do not touch the reality of life. Not only the passage of time but also the false images make human life exhausted and unhappy. To solve the problem, the poet's imagination creates two images of unified being: the "blossoming" tree and the "dancing" body. Where life is blossoming or dancing, the poet says, "The body is not bruised to pleasure soul." What he is trying to say is that life is an ongoing process, and so we must accept it as it really is.

The purpose of this study is to research the relation between Yeats's imagination and the theme of old age, death, and after-life in Yeat's poetry. According to Heraclitus, cosmology is formed aspects of polarity, assuming 'living each other's death, dying each other's life.' The world is conceived as opposition and contradiction, and the human is dual in nature. this dualistic conflict of consciousness has become a basic starting point of his imagination. Yeats recognized the dualistic conflict was an energy of a creative mind and a characteristic of human nature. It brought about the struggle between inner world and outer world. This struggle begins with assuming an individual's anti-self opposed to his primary self. To him, the conflict or struggle, endowed with the meaning of human being existence, is the seed of being of unity. "An Acre of Grass," dealing with the theme of old age, Yeats saw the tragic reality as positive. In spite of decrepitude and quiescence, Yeats said 'Grant me an old man's frenzy, / myself must I remake.' In Yeats's case, great are art is not merely created out of the conjunction of the artist's mind and external world, but rather out of the artist's denial of his primary self and recreation of his mask, the true image of his antithetical self and a fragment of the Anima Mundi. In recreating this fragment he actually creates a higher order of reality than the visible world possesses. Yeats conceive death and life are not divided but connected in "Tower", and "Mohini Chatterjee" as accepting positively human tragic condition. Yeats said that the wheel or cone of the Faculties may be considered to complete its movement between birth and death, that of the Principles to include the period between lives as well in A Vision. In "Byzantium", Yeats deals with the after-life in the view of Four Principles as seeing the soul after death as living reality. To Yeats, the phenomenon of violence, hatred or passion in this world is prerequisite to reincarnation, a creation of other self or true self. After getting rebirth, Yeats tried to reach profane perfection. Looking out over the whole of human life, and its prevailing desolation, he tried to find the proper response to life and suffering in terms of gaiety. Yeats's final response to the old age and death here is no longer the horror, but he accepts the old age and death as the pain of human being with tragic joy through his unique imagination.

목적 : 본 연구는 65세 이상 노인 뇌졸중 환자의 작업치료 전과 후의 일상생활 수행능력을 비교하고 작업치료 후 기능의 변화를 분석하여 작업치료의 가치를 검증하고자 하였다.1994년 6월부터 2004년 3월까지 A대 병원에서 작업치료를 받고 퇴원한 65세 이상 노인환자 중 치료기간이 180일 이내이며 의무기록열람이 가능하였던 228명을 연구대상으로 하였다.연구방법 : 의무기록 열람을 통한 후향적인 조사를 실시하여, 성별, 발병 당시의 연령, 진단, 발병원인, 발병횟수, 치료기간, 학력 등의 일반적인 정보와 치료 시작시와 종료시 MMSE와 MBI의 개별항목 점수와 전체점수를 조사하였다. MBI 개별항목 중 대․소변처리 항목은 정보의 부정확성으로 제외하여 전체점수는 최저 0점 최고 80점 만점으로 하였다. 통계분석은 SPSS(Ver 12.0)통계처리 프로그램을 이용하였으며, 65세 이상 뇌졸중 환자들의 작업치료 전, 후의 일상생활 수행능력의 변화를 알아보기 위하여 전체 MBI 점수와 일상생활동작 개별항목의 점수는 짝비교 t-검정을 실시하고, 연령군, 치료기간군, MMSE 전체 점수간의 일상생활동작수행능력의 향상점수는 일원배치 분산분석(One-Way ANOVA)을 실시하였다.결과 : 첫째, 대상자의 치료 후의 MBI 전체 점수는 43.19±26.90으로 치료 시작 시 20.12±20.34보다 23.07±19.92점 향상되었으며(p<0.001), 치료 후의 MBI 개별항목 모두에서 통계적으로 유의하게 점수가 향상되었다. 특히 걷기 5.52±5.44점(p<0.001), 의자/침대로 이동하기 4.59±4.82점(p<0.001), 옷 입고 벗기 3.27±3.38점(p<0.001), 화장실 동작 3.24±3.76점p<0.001)에서 다른 항목보다 유의하게 높은 점수의 향상이 있었다.둘째, 대상자의 MMSE 점수가 높을수록 MBI 점수도 높았다(p<0.001).결론 : 대상자들의 작업치료 전, 후의 MBI 점수를 비교한 결과 작업치료 후의 MBI 전체점수와 개별항목 점수 모두에서 치료 전보다 수행능력이 향상되었다. 또한 인지기능이 높을수록 일상생활동작 수행능력이 더욱 향상되었다.위와 같은 결론을 통해 이 연구는 65세 이상 노인 뇌졸중 환자에게 독립적인 일상생활동작 수행능력을 증진시키기 위하여 작업치료를 시행하는 것이 효과가 있음을 보여주었으며, 향후 65세 이상 노인 뇌졸중 환자의 작업치료에 기초 자료를 제공할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

The purpose of this study were to investigate the independent ADL (Activities of Daily Living) level of elderly people using a questionnaire made up of a mobility scale, two basic ADL measurement tools, and an instrumental ADL measurement tool, and to differentiate between the levels according to various performance environments. The subjects were elderly people (over 60 years) who live in Wonju City (pop.240,000). A survey tool made up of 110 items was used for this study and the quiestionnaire was completed by 7 investigators who interviewed the respondents at gatherings for the elderly. The results were analyzed according to gender, 3 age groups (60-69, 70-75, and over 76), comfortable position preference (floor sitting or chair sitting), and housing type (detached house or apartment) by non parametric statistics, Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests. The results were as follows: 1. According to age group, basic ADL dependence level was not significantly different in ‘cleaning house’, ‘travelling’, ‘street crossing’, ‘hospital visiting’, and ‘walking around’. Women were more significantly dependent than men in instrumental ADL: ‘going to the post office’, ‘driving’, and ‘street crossing’, but without significant difference of dependence level in basic ADL. 2. According to position pattern, dependence level was not significantly different for ‘face washing’, ‘hair washing’ or ‘foot washing’. At rest, people sitting on the floor were more dependent in instrumental ADL items only for ‘shopping’ and ‘attending religious services’. People living in detached houses reported significantly more difficulty using the toilet than those in apratments. 3. The most sensitive items for evaluating functional independence of the elderly were: ‘using the telephone’, ‘face washing’, ‘hair washing’, ‘foot washing’, and ‘bottle opening’ in basic ADL, and ‘hospital visiting’, ‘travelling’, and ‘street crossing’ in instrumental ADL. The Cronbach α value of mobility, basic ADL, instrumental ADL were 0.87, 0.86, and 0.91, respectively. To evaluate the ADL of old age, we have to use evaluation tools suitable to the Korean culture. The most useful items were ‘telephone use’, ‘face washing’, ‘hair washing’, ‘foot washing’, ‘bottle opening’ in basic ADL, and ‘hospital visiting’, ‘travelling’, and ‘street crossing’ in instrumental ADL. Especially, instrumental ADL is more valuable than basic ADL in evaluating old age. It is more important in evaluating the practical aspects of life in old age to consider housing and living patterns because there are some ADL items which are affected by comfortable sitting preference and housing style.

The Old Age of Queen Maeve(1903) is a very short pure dramatic poem, which deals with Queen Maeve’s heroic episode related to the god of love Aengus’s love affair in the ancient pagan period of Ireland. In this work Yeats expresses his strong will to disinter almost forgotten ancient narratives and propagate them among the contemporary Irish people who are getting quite unfamiliar with them, and at the same time he expresses his admiration of his beloved Maud Gonne more overtly and proudly than in any other work by juxtaposing/overlapping her image with that of Queen Maeve. This poem, along with such long dramatic poems as The Wandering of Oisin(1889) and The Shadowy Waters(1906-12), belongs to the same group of narratives in that all of these are related to his unrequited sweetheart Gonne. However, The Old Age of Queen Maeve is somewhat different from those two in the manner the poet takes toward his beloved, and in this poem he deplores that she too will grow old and die though she is as great, beautiful and passionate a woman as Queen Maeve was. In those two longer poems the star-crossed lovers follow heartbreaking pattern of love―meeting only after their death. But in The Old Age of Queen Maeve the lovers are supposed to meet each other in this world eventually, however long time it will take, as Aengus was to meet his lover Caer by the help of Queen Maeve and her grandchildren. In this article the present writer intends to descry Yeats’s purpose of using the ancient Irish myths and his power of creating an individual mythology based on them, and interpret the symbolical meanings caused by the overlapped images of Maeve and Gonne.

본 연구의 목적은 문화센터에서의 미술활동이 장 노년기의 내 외적인 삶에 어떠한 영향을 주는지 탐색하고, 더 나아가 미술활동이 그들의 삶의 만족도와 가치관에 어떠한 영향을 주는지 밝히는 것이다. 연구방법은 참여적 실행연구에 따른 질적 연구 방법론을 적용하여, 2013년 12월부터 2014년 4월까지 총 5개월 동안 미술활동을 하는 장 노년층들의 수업에 연구자가 직접 참여하여 연구 참여자의 지속적인 관찰을 통한 참여관찰일지 심층면담 녹취를 한 자료들을 분석하여 연구결과를 도출하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 연구참여자의 내적변화에서는 장 노년기 특유의 외로움, 마음불안정, 우울함 등이 미술활동을 통해 치유되었다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 둘째, 미술활동을 통해 목적의식이 없었던 노년기의 삶에 새로운 도전을 꿈꿀 수 있었고, 또한 서로를 이해하고 배려하는 안정적인 삶을 찾을 수 있었다는 연구결과를 도출하였다.