Abstract

Literary landscape usually reflects its creator’s ideology. Yeats’s idealized landscape in his early poetry, on the one hand, attempted to elevate colonial Irish national culture and resist British colonialist culture; on the other hand, it happened to coincide with British colonialist cultural stereotyped constructs of Irish culture and even with British colonialist thought, thus indicating his ambiguous attitude toward the two cultures. The complexity and contradiction in Yeats’s ideology conveyed by his idealized landscape originated from some profound historical and cultural background as well.

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