본 논문은 예이츠의 희곡 발야스 스트랜드에서가 어떻게 잘 알려진 아일랜드의 전설 “이퍼여왕의 외동아들”의 수백 년 간의 변형과 관련이 있는지를 연 구한다. 이 변화의 역사를 추적하면 자연적인 것과 비자연적인 것의 상충에 대한 주제 의 의미를 파악할 수 있게 된다. 예이츠는 심오한 자연의 충동에 뿌리를 둔 초자연의 모티프를 추가를 시도함으로써 본 주제를 탐색한다. 발야스 스트랜드에서는 인간성 의 거부는 초자연성의 포기와 함께 간다는 것을 보여주는 동시에 초자연성의 무시는 우리의 의미 깊은 자연적 충동의 힘을 배제할 위험이 있는 것이다.

예이츠의 「바일리의 바다 」는 셰익스피어의 주요 비극들을 연상시킨다. 「리어 왕」의 바보와 「맥베스」의 3마녀는 예이츠의 「바일리의 바다」의 바보와 장님과 유사한 기능을 가지고 있다. 파도와 생사가 걸린 결투를 하는 쿠후린은 고통으로 폭풍 속에서 울부짖는 리어왕을 상기시킨다. 이 논문은 첫 눈에는 잘 드러나지 않지만 예이 츠가 셰익스피어를 어떻게 차용하는지를 이해하기 위해 예이츠의 「바일리의 바다」와 셰익스피어의 「리어 왕」과「맥베스 」탐색한다.

This paper is to discuss the supernatural ecstasy in the “Supernatural Songs”. When focusing his poetry on the physical, Yeats turned his attention more and more toward the East. While seizing upon an increasingly physical and sexual emphasis, Yeats's secular spiritualism moved in an Eastern, monistic direction. As far as he was concerned, sexual spirituality was much more compatible with indian spirituality. To embody these instincts and passions, he posited a mythical character by the name of Ribh as the cental character of the “Supernatural Songs”. He tried to display a transcendental ecstasy. He associated early Christian Ireland with India. He described the fictional character of Ribh as an early Christian hermit, who is ninety years old. In the East, Yeats found a propensity toward unity of being that would underscore the essential unity of flesh and spirit so necessary to his thought. The “Supernatural Songs” thus brought together an Eastern amalgamation of Christianity and Asian religiosity, merging the supernatural-spiritual with the natural-physical. Yeats espoused tantric sex, a form of Kundalini, with its emphasis on self and the sexual act as the way to spiritual energy and fulfillment. The word Kundalini means coil, which Yeats reflects in the serpent imagery. In conclusion, Yeats found an imaginative way whereby he was able to fuse the spiritual with the physical in the “Supernatural Songs”. This secular spirituality allowed Yeats the sexual freedom he sought for. The intense moment of climax is that conflagration in which all antinomies are resolved, time stands still, and natural bonds with supernatural. His emphasis on unity of being is compatible with an Eastern worldview, which merges all into a monistic unity. Indeed, poetry itself is in Yeats's mind an imaginative alchemy, the transmutation of life into art, a fusing of the spiritual with the material.

Baile and Aillinn, based on a pagan myth of ancient Ireland, is a long narrative poem which expresses Yeats’s private love story along with his deep interest in his fatherland and its national literature. Naturally, Yeats enlarged the simple plot of the story which tells about the two lovers’ death and their going to live in Aengus’s land among the dead. He also partly created his own private myth in order to transmit his many-folded intent. By clothing each mythical character with a role and symbol appropriate for his purpose, he succeeded in making his poem overcome the limitation of private utterance and making it a poem with both individuality and universality. The death of Baile and Aillinn has a duplicate symbolic meaning. Firstly, their death is an inevitable ritual process to get an eternal beatitude through the union after death and a sort of sublimation of a tragic love, in which we can glimpse at the poet’s plaintive love for Gonne. Secondly, their death is a kind of ritual murder symbolizing a Messianism of the Irish desiring for liberation from inveterate poverty and oppression over time. In conclusion, Baile and Aillinn is an excellent piece showing Yeats’s seasoned poetic technique of creating a poem with new meaning through mythologizing with great subtlety not only his own autobiographical elements but also the national feelings of the Irish people.