La evocación del paisaje:

W. B. Yeats y Kathleen Raine, entre el símbolo y la Nación

Abstract

In this paper we intend to trace some poetic affinities and divergencies on the evocative power of landscape and nature in the Irish poet W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) and the English poet Kathleen Raine (1908-2003). Yeats resorted to dinnseanchas as an evocation of a forgotten landscape and through its incantatory power attempted to take the mind of the listener to a higher and more ideal plane. Raine, meanwhile, was able to escape from academic orthodoxy by turning to the Northumbrian landscape in an act of rememoration which evokes the communion with nature in a world besieged by materialism. We hold, however, that the act of turning to nature as symbol reveals differences which engage, in Yeats, the search of a conjunction between nation and landscape and, in Raine, an alternative to the division between mind and nature.