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초록

Yeats’s Autobiographies describes his development as a poet through reveries over early childhood, separation from family, associations with various groups, and self-fashioning. Its chronological progression of the narrative is, however, obscured by several stylistic arrangements that Yeats gives to his experience. The self and the view of the world have vague and fragmentary qualities in combination with the disjointedness of images, diversity of their recall, and range of clarity. Yeats also introduces new characters and events abruptly in condensed images, thus often making the connection between successive sections appear highly tenuous. This discontinuity is seen to result from Yeats’s singular treatment of time, place, and person, from his syntactic choices of polysyndeton and asyndeton, or from his fragmentary portraits of family members, friends and rivals. In making Autobiographies, Yeats reconstructs the self as seen from the present moment of writing, the self that would not otherwise exist.

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