Structural rhythm in late yeats

Paying attention to structural rhythm, the relation of parts to whole and also the implied movement between structural elements, can help to make sense of the problematic poetry and drama of Yeats's last two decades. With reference to the 1937 version of A Vision and to the poem "A Dialogue of Self and Soul," this essay shows how the continual and oppositional movement between antinomies constitutive of the system of A Vision underlies Yeats's extreme positions in his late work, as well as contributing to the power of that work.