SOURCE: "Yeats on Poetry and Politics," in The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. XXV, No. 1, Autumn 1983, pp. 64-73.
In the following excerpt, O'Neill suggests that Yeats's poetical interpretation of political events evolved from bitterness to acceptance as Yeats tried to impose order on chaos by applying the theories of historical cycles which he explains in his collection of poems entitled A Vision.
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