“还乡”是爱尔兰诗人叶芝贯穿其一生作品中的重要母题。叶芝意识到爱尔兰民族精神对其创作的重要性,通过回溯爱尔兰文学传统回归精神上的原乡,从而治愈人类在现代社会中的空虚、迷惘,找到生存的意义。 “Returning home ” is an important motif of Irish poet Yeats throughout his life. Yeats recognized the importance of Irish national spirit to his creation and returned to spiritual homeland through a backtracking of the Irish literary tradition so as to heal the void and confusion of humankind in modern society and find the meaning of existence.