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YEATS'S "AT THE HAWK'S WELL": PYTHAGOREAN IMPLICATIONS

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Date Issued:
1976
Summary:
W. B. Yeats drew upon many philosophies for symbols that he used in his poetry and plays. Pythagoreanism, as one of these philosophies, formed the basis for much of his numerical and musical symbolism. Four major Pythagorean concepts--number, antithesis, geometry, and music--became essential patterns in Yeats's work, particularly in his Noh plays. At the Hawk's Well exemplifies all of these concepts, and dramatizes their philosophical and symbolic implications. The Pythagorean symbols possess a tangible power as religious symbols, and Yeats called upon them to infuse his work with order, dimension, and a multiplicity of meanings, as he used them to represent his eternal search for Unity of Being.
Title: YEATS'S "AT THE HAWK'S WELL": PYTHAGOREAN IMPLICATIONS.
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Name(s): JOHNSON, MARA LOUISE.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1976
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 87 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: W. B. Yeats drew upon many philosophies for symbols that he used in his poetry and plays. Pythagoreanism, as one of these philosophies, formed the basis for much of his numerical and musical symbolism. Four major Pythagorean concepts--number, antithesis, geometry, and music--became essential patterns in Yeats's work, particularly in his Noh plays. At the Hawk's Well exemplifies all of these concepts, and dramatizes their philosophical and symbolic implications. The Pythagorean symbols possess a tangible power as religious symbols, and Yeats called upon them to infuse his work with order, dimension, and a multiplicity of meanings, as he used them to represent his eternal search for Unity of Being.
Identifier: 13807 (digitool), FADT13807 (IID), fau:10636 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.
Subject(s): Yeats, W B--(William Butler),--1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation
Pythagoras and Pythagorean school
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