예이츠는 자연시에서 현세를 벗어나 저편의 이상향을 그리는 낭만주의적인 성향을 보여준다고 여겨져 왔다. 하지만, 그의 전원풍의 시는 전통적인 이상향을 추구하면서도 현실에 대한 비극적인 인식과 도피를 추구하지 않는다는 점에서 전원시의 전통에서 벗어나 있다. 예이츠의 독특한 상상력은 오히려 동양적인 자연관을 연상시키며 현대의 생태적 인식에도 닿아있는 것으로 여겨진다. 이에, 논자는 예이츠의 자연시 몇 수를 조선시대의 강호가도와 비교하며 그의 자연시의 동양적, 생태적 풍미를 제고하고자 한다.

The threads of this thesis are several theoretical issues of modern urban ideals. Modern architects and urban designers conceived their individual artifacts, which assumed to be laid out on the new settings totally different from the existing urban fabrics derived from inherently medieval ones. In the discussion of modern ideal society, the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment was a pivotal point. Innovations in technology and expanded living territories since the double revolution have been critical factors in the evolution of new ideas of urbanism. The tremendous success in science and technology led a way to the 'science-fiction' environment as a destined apocalyptic world. The dream, whether it was socialist or in any other believes, to a pastoral utopia beyond the capitalist society was represented through the ideal cities, which were modern versions of arcadia in the other approaches. Two sides of revolutionary ideas are presented as a futurist city and a garden city, which are on the separate notions but co-existed or overlapped in a single urban project such as in Le Corbusier urban schemes or even Tchumi's recent work, Parc de la Villette. Urban ideas in the twentieth century are based on urban naturalism, the notion of which was consistant from abbe Laugier to Le Corbusier, as well as machine aesthetics interpreted in terms of archeological research and modern technology.