The Style and Symbolism of the Refrain in W. B. Yeats’s Poetry | ||
| حوليات أداب عين شمس | ||
| Volume 53, Issue 11 - Serial Number 3, September 2025, Pages 196-218 PDF (385.75 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/aafu.2025.383786.1922 | ||
| Author | ||
| Yasir Elyasa* | ||
| Northern Border Universitym,, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Arar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study aims at exploring the development of the style and symbolism of Yeats’s use of the Refrain. This style, among the other formal elements, has a special importance to Yeats himself as well as his audience, for studying the symbolism behind the choices he makes in picking the form for his poetry. His use of the refrain is laden with symbolism, as it is the case with his rhyme and rhythm pattern. Therefore, tracking the shifts and re-visits he makes of a specific pattern of refrain usually has a fundamental function and is more significant in studying the symbolism of his poetry. His unique style concerning the use of refrains in his early poetry, which is clearer and more heavily loaded with symbolism, was revisited in the late stage, while in the middle stage he wandered here and there, experimenting with different styles until, apparently, he found his way in the last stage, back to his early preferences. This is where his use of refrains, directly related to his choice of the Ballad form, becomes clearly and significantly symbolic, bearing the symbolism of form he often headed to and talked about, which is one of the most fundamental elements for a deep understanding of his poetic text. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| refrain; symbolism, form, ballad | ||
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