申論題

4. Write an essay on the subjeet below. (25%)
 The modernist scholar Daniel Albright makes the following observation on William Butler Yeats and his successors:

Yeats reminded [Auden and Eliot] that poetry is incantation, spell, charm - an art dedicated not to correctness but to power. Auden and Eliot were suspicious of the poet's archaic and magical aspect - Auden once wrote that the purpose of poetry is "by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate." But it is impossible to disenchant without some prior enchantment... The long tradition of British pocts, from the savage bards who could make trees walk by casting spells, to the refined sorcery of Yeats, may find its complement and antidote in the later Modernism of Eliot and Auden.

 Wiite an essay in which you apply Albright's critical insights to the work of W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, and T. S. Eliot. Other figures in the British modernist period may also be considered, though not required. Provide specific examples froun specific texts to illustrate your points.