ABSTRACT Acclaimed as one of the best poets of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats is often the focus of critical attention. The connections between Yeats's work and the Abbey Theatre, Irish nationalism, language arts, and his love affair with Maud Gonne have been widely explored. Many of Yeats's poems focus on death, a universal topic which engenders fear and enchantment simultaneously, so his attitude toward the inevitability of decrepitude merits further exploration. This paper discusses Yeats's early poems, such as ‘When You Are Old’ and ‘The Folly of Being Comforted’ as well as his later poems, such as ‘The Municipal Gallery Revisited’ and ‘A Dialogue of Self and Soul.’ These poems are analysed in a comparative study of Yeats's conception of life and death. Additionally, Derrida's deconstructive reading strategy and his creative interpretation of death expounded in The Gift of Death (1996) are included to trace the elusive nature of death in Yeats's poetry and illustrate its personal and cultural implications. It was found that whereas in his earlier poems the hierarchical opposition of life and death is strategically subverted to help resolve his unrequited love affair, Yeats deals with death with energy and confidence in his later poems.

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“放冷眼”：WB Yeats诗歌中的生与死

摘要被公认为20世纪最伟大的诗人之一的威廉·巴特勒·叶芝（William Butler Yeats）经常成为人们关注的焦点。叶芝的作品与修道院剧院，爱尔兰民族主义，语言艺术以及他与莫德·贡恩（Maud Gonne）的恋情之间的联系已得到广泛探讨。叶芝的许多诗集中于死亡，这是一个普遍的话题，同时引发恐惧和结界，因此他对衰落不可避免的态度值得进一步探讨。本文讨论了叶芝的早期诗作，如《当你老了》和《被安慰的愚蠢》，以及后来的诗作，如《市政画廊重访》和《自我与灵魂的对话》。在对叶芝的生死观念的比较研究中对这些诗进行了分析。此外，德里达 他的解构性阅读策略和他对死亡的创造性解释在《死亡的礼物》（1996）中得到了阐述，以追溯叶芝诗中死亡的难以捉摸的本质，并说明其个人和文化含义。人们发现，尽管在他的早期诗歌中战略性地颠覆了生与死的等级对立，以帮助解决他的单恋，但叶芝对后来的诗歌充满了活力和信心。