ECOS DO ORIENTE EM “LAPIS LAZULI” DE W. B. YEATS葉慈詩作《天青石雕》中的東方回聲
This article analyzes the "echoes of the Orient" in "Lapis Lazuli," a poem by W. B. Yeats included in Last Poems (1936–1939), proposing that the evocation of a Chinese sculptural piece in lapis lazuli functions less as decorative exoticization and more as an aesthetic mechanism to reconfigure the re...
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| description | This article analyzes the "echoes of the Orient" in "Lapis Lazuli," a poem by W. B. Yeats included in Last Poems (1936–1939), proposing that the evocation of a Chinese sculptural piece in lapis lazuli functions less as decorative exoticization and more as an aesthetic mechanism to reconfigure the relationship between tragedy, historical repetition, and cultural continuity. The author reads the poem in a comparative and intertextual manner, situating it within the context of other Yeatsian meditations on artistic objects, and articulating references to the Middle and Far East—including the funerary symbolism of the stone, as well as the presence of the "Chinamen" as figures of longevity and reconstruction. Methodologically, the analysis employs close reading and a critical framework of Oriental imagery, tracing how Yeats shifts the notion of the "tragic" toward an ethics of heroic joy: the instability of creations ("All things fall and are built again") is countered by a cultural productivity that transforms decline into renewal. The conclusion is that the poem turns the Orient into a mirror of the Western artistic task, where permanence depends on the ability to "raise the cry" in the midst of despair, and where art paradoxically provides solutions to suffering. |
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| spelling | ECOS DO ORIENTE EM “LAPIS LAZULI” DE W. B. YEATS葉慈詩作《天青石雕》中的東方回聲 This article analyzes the "echoes of the Orient" in "Lapis Lazuli," a poem by W. B. Yeats included in Last Poems (1936–1939), proposing that the evocation of a Chinese sculptural piece in lapis lazuli functions less as decorative exoticization and more as an aesthetic mechanism to reconfigure the relationship between tragedy, historical repetition, and cultural continuity. The author reads the poem in a comparative and intertextual manner, situating it within the context of other Yeatsian meditations on artistic objects, and articulating references to the Middle and Far East—including the funerary symbolism of the stone, as well as the presence of the "Chinamen" as figures of longevity and reconstruction. Methodologically, the analysis employs close reading and a critical framework of Oriental imagery, tracing how Yeats shifts the notion of the "tragic" toward an ethics of heroic joy: the instability of creations ("All things fall and are built again") is countered by a cultural productivity that transforms decline into renewal. The conclusion is that the poem turns the Orient into a mirror of the Western artistic task, where permanence depends on the ability to "raise the cry" in the midst of despair, and where art paradoxically provides solutions to suffering. Instituto Cultural de Macau Macau Review of Culture Articles 2013 Clara Sarmento |
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