ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

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Chu Yohan (1900-1979) and W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) express the tension between the empire and the colony in their poetic works thematizing its spatial distinctiveness. Both poets are associated with distorted, divisive selfhood between universalism and nationalism. Chu composed his poetry in several spaces such as Tokyo, Shanghai, and Seoul, and Yeats also carried out his creative writing in London, Dublin, and Sligo. The fact that their literary language originated from Japanese and English, respectively, had something to do with the imperial education system they received. Tae-dong River in Pyongyang and Sligo can be portrayed with an artistic mind by such education. Whereas Chu was not free from the tension between Japanese and Korean in his writings, Yeats never complained over his use of language. Yeats, as an Anglo-Irish, had more liberal mind in his choice of language. Nonetheless, the similarity between the two poets would provide the ground for the comparison. They tackle tensions between metropole and colony and uncover their socio-political identity by poetry composition.

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