The Idealized Landscapes and Their Nationalist Cultural Strategy in Early Yeats

Literary landscapes usually reflect their creators' ideology. There is no exception in the idealized landscapes of Yeats's early poetry, which, on one hand, attempted to elevate colonial Irish national culture and resist British colonialist culture, and on the other hand, happened to coincide with British colonialist cultural stereotyped constructs of Irish culture and even with British colonialist thought, thus indicating his ambiguous attitudes towards the two cultures. The complexity and contradiction in Yeats's early ideology conveyed by his idealized landscapes rooted in some profound historical and cultural backgrounds.