Yeats Flashcards
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Q
What idea did Yeats put forward in ‘The Symbolism of Poetry’ ?
A
‘We should seek out those organic rhythms, which are the embodiment of the imagination, that neither desire nor hates, only wishes to gaze upon some reality’
- putting forward the idea that poetry is a manifestation of the unconscious mind, in which images / symbols can induce a trans like state by liberating the mind from the ‘pressure of the will’
