Masking the Profound: Yeats and Nietzsche’s Masks

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School essay

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3 pages

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08/07/2007

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Table of Contents Masking the Profound: Yeats and Nietzsche’s Masks Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The poet of 'Adam's Curse' and 'philosophers and friends'
  3. Types of nobleness exemplified in Helen according to Nietzsche
  4. The decline of the other lover
  5. Yeats suggestion that he may be leaving Nietzsche's masks behind in 'A Coat'
  6. Conclusion
  7. Works cited

Abstract

Though it is impossible to measure the degree of influence that the work of Friedrich nietzsche had upon William Butler yeats, a definite change in yeats' poetry occurred soon after the point in which the Irishman received a copy of Thus Spake Zarathustra in 1902. The "masks" that suddenly appear in his poetry that same year bear striking relations to the masks that populate nietzsche's books, especially Beyond Good and Evil. Beginning with "Adam's Curse" and continuing throughout his career, yeats employs Nietzschean masks as constructs that shield profound spirits who exist beyond the laws of man from that unworthy realm.

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