SOURCE: "The Environment of the Quest: The Poetic Dream," in The Early Poetry of W. B. Yeats: The Poetic Quest, Kennikat Press, 1978, pp. 11-38.
In the following excerpt, Byrd interprets animal and plant imagery as important aspects of Yeats's poetry, suggesting that such images authenticate the "poetic dream" of art's eternal power.
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