English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jacques Lacan, Fortified Tower, Maud Gonne
9 Mar 2016
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Yeats" work is a response to two events of loss in his life. Sense of loss of a capacity to believe. Living in a period where religion and faith was destroyed . His response to the rejection of maude gonne, this deformed him in some way. Trauma happens, one is unable to comprehend. Mourning goes back and makes it understandable, storying it. Melancholia means you are either unable or unwilling to comprehend the event of trauma. These people require their loss, they need it, somewhat addicted to loss and trauma. The event that took place of trauma is eternal, yeats is one of these melancholics who needs his trauma. Without these events, his work would not exist; his art is grounded by his loss. It is here in this poem that yeats, in his imagination, is tracing back to the very origins of himself as an artist. He does not see us as only existing in one time.
