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    William Butler Yeats was a dialectical poet who used symbols and allusions to explore opposing ideas. He drew from various sources for inspiration and structured his poems to hold contradictions in balance through a dialectical process. Yeats was a skilled composer who employed technical precision in rhythm, rhyme, and structure to transcend dichotomies on a linguistic level. His poetry examined universal tensions and paradoxes in human experience through recurring symbols and a synthesis of opposing ideas.

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    William Butler Yeats was a dialectical poet who used symbols and allusions to explore opposing ideas. He drew from various sources for inspiration and structured his poems to hold contradictions in balance through a dialectical process. Yeats was a skilled composer who employed technical precision in rhythm, rhyme, and structure to transcend dichotomies on a linguistic level. His poetry examined universal tensions and paradoxes in human experience through recurring symbols and a synthesis of opposing ideas.

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    William Butler Yeats was a dialectical poet who used symbols and allusions to explore opposing ideas. He drew from various sources for inspiration and structured his poems to hold contradictions in balance through a dialectical process. Yeats was a skilled composer who employed technical precision in rhythm, rhyme, and structure to transcend dichotomies on a linguistic level. His poetry examined universal tensions and paradoxes in human experience through recurring symbols and a synthesis of opposing ideas.

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    REVISION SHEET – WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

    Dialectical Poet
    Highly Symbolic
    • Dialectical poetry follows a particular structure from the
    thesis, to the antithesis to the synthesis. • Symbols are recurring in Yeats’ poetry
    • Oppositions are held in balance and transcended. Poems are • Used symbols because they resonate with universal meaning
    about change. but also because they evoke a multiplicity of meaning.
    • Commonly uses symbols that represent opposite extremes. • Uses symbols because of their pluralisitic meaning
    • “Contradiction, balance and contrast is central to Yeats’ • Uses symbols to explain the synthesis.
    imagery.” • The symbolism is the means by which oppositions are
    • Antinomy is common to Yeats’ poems transcended. Think of the “chestnut-tree”
    • Yeats’ poetic dialectics are the big ideas: the spiritual • Analysis of imagery is imperative
    illumination, historic insight, symmetry of life and so on.

    Is Intertextual

    • Drew upon antiquity, mythology, mysticism, nature, politics, Skilled Composer


    history, autobiography for inspiration. • Yeats was an accomplished composer. He wrote poems with
    • Articulates the multiple and paradoxical sides to Yeats’ technical precision. Their structure, rhythm and rhyme is
    personality and ways of thinking also a way he transcends oppositions. The structure itself
    • We see Yeats as poet: philosopher; lover; politician; symbolist, supplements and is an extension of the meaning of the
    young Yeats / old Yeats; Yeats the Romantic; Yeats the poem.
    Modernist; Yeats the dogmatic, ego; public figure versus • It is in the poems craftsmanship that we can appreciate
    private man Yeats’ talent and acceptance of the irreconcilability of life’s
    • Consider the thesis statement: The poetry of W, B. Yeats paradoxes. In a linguistic and structural sense he is able to
    explores the universal dichotomies of human experience and transcend their confines.
    the tensions that exist between antithetical human realities.
    •

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