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This paper is an attempt to understand W. B. Yeats's love poems for Maud Gonne from the viewpoint of poetry therapy. It's because in his love poems, the process of the acceptance and recovery from the grief of lost love coincides with the principles of the poetry therapy. Poetry therapy gives chances of self-examination to those who suffer from mental crisis by making them read and write poetry and then let them newly recognize others and their world, and cope with the changes of the life. The first part of this paper introduces the history, goal, and principles of the poetry therapy. The main parts of the paper survey how Yeats's relationship with Gonne began and continued, and analyze his love poems selected from his early and later poetry in relation to the purpose of this study. At first, he portrays her as an ideal beauty like goddesses. He does not understand her way of life entirely and even blames her because of his being rejected. But gradually, she becomes more objectified in his later poetry. He realizes their differences between temperamental and political opinions, accepts the lost love, and praises her spirit of sacrifice and patriotism. That is to say, he recovers from the grief by writing poems and becomes more perceptive than before. In this sense, Yeats's love poems deal with the growth of the self that is the very aim of poetry therapy.
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Yeats, poetry therapy, lost love, growth, recovery
