Abstract
AT THE CORE of the poetic and dramatic achievement of William Butler Yeats lies the search for the opposite. As he conceived of this search, it was essentially the pursuit of, an image which was most unlike himself and, at the same time, his double. The full realization of the image of the opposite was not only a means of escape from the realism of every day and from his own personality, but a means of achieving a higher unity. The search for the image of the opposite became the means through which an ideal art could be attained. It led not only to the adoption of poetic masks through the use of such legendary figures as Michael Robartes and Cuchulain, but to the final achievement of his career as a playwright, the Four Plays of Dancers.
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