본 논문의 목적은 『켈트족의 여명』에 사용된 이중서사기법이 에세이와 스토리, 두 장르를 결합하는 한편 시인의 반자아의 마스크로서 기능하는 점을 살펴보는 것이다. 『켈트족의 여명』은 아일랜드의 민담을 정확하고 솔직하게 편집하고자 한 예이츠의 독특하고도 창의적인 시도이다. 상상력을 사용하지 않았다는 그의 주장에도 불구하고 『켈트족의 여명』은 보편적인 상상력과 개인적인 상상력으로 가득한 책이다. 그것의 내러티브는, 예이츠가 전통 및 동시대의 작가들로부터 배워온 고도로 정교한 마스크를 통해 이루어지고 있다. 과거에 상실한 존재의 통합을 복원하는 것이 예이츠의 담대한 목적이었는데 비록 상업주의가 지배하는 세계에서 필연적으로 실패할 운명이라 해도 그는 결코 초월적 비전과 이를 향한 수단으로서 예술에 대한 신뢰를 포기한 적이 없었다. 통합을 상실한 시대의 반자아를 대변하는 서사적 마스크가 본질적으로 모순적이듯 시인의 상상력과 믿음 그리고 꿈 또한 모순적일 수밖에 없는 현실에서 예술만이 희망임을 그는 너무도 잘 알고 있었기 때문이다.

Sunrise and sunset times differ depending on location and date. Previous studies conveniently but monotonously applied day and night times set up. This research defined the daytime and nighttime while considering the time of twilight according to the date and the location of ship collision accidents. Classifying the frequency of ship collision accidents with this standard, we conducted a chi-squared test for the difference between daytime and nighttime. The frequencies of ship collision accidents according to daytime and nighttime was compared by season, month, and time, and all of them showed statistically significant differences. The highest number of daytime ship collisions was 11.6 %, in June, and nighttime collisions peaked at 13.7 %, in December. The most frequent hour for daytime ship collisions was 0700h-0800h, at 10.2 %, and nighttime collisions peaked between 0400h-0500h, at 16.9 %. It is clear that the criteria used in previous studies cited was applied without any theoretical basis and likely only for the convenience of the researchers. It was found that results depend on what criteria are applied to the same research data. This study shows that statistical analyses of marine accidents, traffic volume, and congestion density should be carried out quantitatively while considering daytime and nighttime hours for each particular location and date.

『켈트의 여명』 속에는 통합의 사상이 여러 가지 방법을 통하여 저변에 깔려 있다. 그것은 주로 황혼의 이미지, 범신론, 대기억을 통해서 나타나는데, 특히 황혼의 이미지는 통합에 대한 주요한 역할을 담당하고 있으며, 물질적인 영역과 정신적 영역의 통합을 이루는데 크게 기여하고 있다. 그리고 범신론과 대기억 역시 일원론적인 관점에서 통합의 사상과 연결되어 있다. 이 작품 속에는 예이츠의 대표적인 사상인 존재통합의 사상이 뿌리 깊게 그 근간을 이루고 있다.

『캘트족의 황혼』의 일차적인 기획 목적은 현대의 산업적이고 물질적인 영국의 정신에 대항하여 아일랜드의 정신을 세우는 것이며 아일랜드 소작 농민의 민 담과 전통에 부합하여 올곧은 아일랜드의 정체성을 부활하는 것이다. 이 작품은 또한 아일랜드를 나누고 있는 이질적인 가톨릭 계층과 프로테스탄트 계층을 문화적으로 통 합하려 한다. 그러나 예이츠가 통합을 시도할수록 종교, 계층, 종족, 언어와 같은 문제 들은 이야기 속에 지속적으로 반복하여 재등장한다. 민족이라는 보다 매력적인 외관의 이면에는 해결할 수 없는 여러 문제들−예이츠의 민담수집에 소극적인 소작 농민들의 태도, 예이츠의 이야기에 나오는 것을 꺼리는 소작 농민의 태도, 게일어를 모르는 예 이츠의 한계, 소작 농민과 거리를 두려는 시인의 태도 등−이 곳곳에 도사리고 있다. 『캘트족의 황혼』은 민족과 문화의 통합을 이루려는 예이츠의 노력과 이를 방해하는 아일랜드의 종교, 계층, 언어가 서로 갈등하는 공간을 눈부시게 드러낸다.

The philosophical idea behind ‘The Celtic Twilight’ has never properly been studied. My firm belief is that our full understanding of the work of Yeats is impossible without our thorough recognition of his philosophical idea behind ‘The Celtic Twilight’ in his poetic development. That is why I am going to offer this study as a beginning of the exploration of ‘The Celtic Twilight’ in order to throw light on his literary ideal in his formative years. The Celtic Twilight School, of which W. B. Yeats was the acknowledged, became fashionable during the nineties and had considerable influence: its delicate impressionism, its shadowy themes, other-worldly longings and subtle wavering rhythms were in accord with the Fin de Siecle Movement. ‘The Celtic Twilight’ of the last decade of the century was no new phenomenon in literature. It was essentially a re-naming and re-ordering of a familiar trait, the ‘folk spirit’, marked by the heightened passions and superstitions common to all literature rising from the people, and given new life by the recent scientific studies of folklore and myth culminating in Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough in 1890. In addition, it possessed a strong tendency towards melancholy which attracted the mystics of Maeterlinck’s school. But the new elements in ‘The Celtic Twilight’ was a sense of place, as opposed to a vague atmosphere. Life and mood became more pointed by the close relationship between nature and emotion. In a general sense this element of the Celtic spirit could be considered a natural outgrowth of the Pantheism or nature-worship of the Romantics influenced by the mystics’ renewed interest in Druidism; more specifically it arose from a self-conscious intellectual attempt to inject fresh life into well-known themes and develop a new approach to old form. The symbolist turns from the barren glass of the outer world to the truth embodied in his own heart. To be brought beyond the limitations of his individual being, however, and into communion with the Great Mind and Memory of the Universe, he needs also a ‘traditional mythology’. Yeats turned for this tradition and mythology to the legend and folklore of his own country, for like Synge and Lady Gregory he believed that Irish peasant was untouched by the materialism and scientific investigations resulting from the restless Renaissance, that the Irish peasant still maintained contact with the mystery and imagination that existed before man fell a slave to the external world. His search, consequently, was for the traditions which lay buried in peasants’ huts and cottages. Yeats was an Irish poet on one hand, and a poet interested in magic and occult on the other. Beginning in 1889, he began to integrate his interests and goals, attempting to become one man - an Irish poet, using Irish subject matter, welding into his technique and statements the substance of magic and mythology. As a poet with ambitions to make a ‘new utterance’, Yeats depended on what he could make of the Celtic past for two main reasons: first, his interests and beliefs had directed him toward finding a kind of Ur-mythology from the time when he first discovered the correspondence between Indian, Hermetic, Theosophic, and Blakean thought; second, and of equal importance, was his position as an outsider in contemporary Ireland, his position as an Anglo-Irishman. Yeats turned to pre-Christian Celtic mythology for the basis of his subject matter both to root his poetry and his own sense of being an Irish poet; he sought a mythology for his poetry and for himself. And he claimed that the artists through their “contact with the soil”, that is, the folk, could create a national literature, since folklore is “the soil where all great art is rooted”. Then he studied and used magic, visions, profound legends, Celtic mythologies, poetic traditions, folklore, and history of the Celtic past to make ‘the old culture of Celtic Ireland’ and ‘exaltation of life itself’ come alive and reaffirm the power of imagination and hope. Accordingly his poetry of ‘The Celtic Twilight’ is an affirmation of folklore and mythology. Folklore and mythology are the tools with which to open the Celtic past, make it present, and thus create a great art rooted in the soil of Folk-belief. Folklore was in Yeats’s eyes the perfect expression of the intermediate world in which gods and mortals met, because the peasants regarded the natural objects around him as signs of divine essences. They had, like the ancient Greeks, mythologized their ‘haunted’ surroundings in stories passed on to many later generations through an oral tradition, thus not only preserving the truth about the divine reality, but also producing a heritage still applicable to everyday life. Yeats claimed that Ireland had created ‘the most beautiful literature of a whole people that had been anywhere since Greece and Rome’, while English literature is ‘yet the literature of a few’. The reason was that ‘Irish stories had been made to be spoken or sung’, while English literature ‘had all but completely shaped itself in the printing-press’. Therefore Yeats’s literary ideal was to bridge the written and unwritten traditions, to establish a learned literary tradition on emotions that came from the heart of the people, and to create from the shock of new material and from a tradition that had never found expression in sophisticated literature a new style, a new mood of the soul. In his poetic career he has sought out an ‘image that blossoms a rose’ deep in the heart, an image that makes ‘all nature murmur in response if but a single note be touched’, and has created a literature that ‘taps the secret spring of all our lives’ and achieves the enduring beauty of great art.

After the publication of his book, The Wanderings of Oisin and the Other Poems in 1899 Yeats was keenly interested in the non-English cultures of the British Isles. It was known as the Celtic Twilight. In 1898 he published a volume of essays called “The Celtic Twilight” containing a number of folk stories. In 1891 he founded the Irish Literary Society and worked on a three-volume edition of the poetry of Blake, which was published in 1893. Because of this involvement he pursued the study of symbolism, which is so important for his poetry. The evidence of this is to be found in his two volumes of the decade, The Rose(1893) and The Wind Among the Reeds(1899), with their many uses of the rose and other symbols. Lady Gregory encouraged Yeats’s interest in folk-lores, visiting with him the homes of her tenants and listening to their stories. She also encouraged him to work for the theatre, which led him to the founding of the Irish National Theatre Society in 1902. In this way Yeats attempted to solve the two problems that were central to him as a public poet: the general problem of symbols in literature in an age lacking a common tradition and the particular problems presented by the confusions of the Irish situation. He was impelled to find a way of putting Ireland into some mental order, so that cultural symbols of dependable significance would be at the disposal of the artist. In this context I read the two poems, “To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time” and “The Song of Wandering Aengus” as the manifestations of the Celtic, symbolic tradition of the Irish elite and the tradition of the Irish people respectively. But in the 1890s and the early 1900s, for all his identification with the Gaelic ethos, a wistful hope remained for leadership from a regenerated landlord class. The Ireland that Yeats envisaged was a nation with a distinctive cultural and spiritual identity, and he imagined a community free of sectarian differences and conflicts. That vision was not as revolutionary as some critics have supposed, and it hardly outlasted the 1890s. A century later, however, we find an unusual amount of interest in his early writings.