SOURCE: "Yeats' Metaphors of Permanence," in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1959, pp. 12-20.
In the following excerpt, Raines examines Yeats's later poems and arques that they contain metaphors which represent order amid chaos and which consequently unify Yeats's later work.
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