SOURCE: "The Symbolism of Poetry," in Essays and Introductions (reprint), Macmillan, 1961, pp. 153-64.
This essay, which first appeared in The Dome in 1900, presents Yeats's views on symbolic poetry. In the excerpt which follows, Yeats discusses the emotional and intellectual associations of symbolism and the power of rhythm to evoke a state of meditation in poetry.
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