Abstract
Yeats defines his identity in his life and work and elaborates his own theory. The germs of his conception are found in the three stories of 1897 : Rosa Alchemica, The Tables of the Law, The Adoration of the Magi, and in the Autobiography. Then the theory takes shape in The Player Queen. Growing richer by contact with the Noh plays, it matures in the essay "Swedenborg, Mediums and Desolate Places" which leads to Per Arnica, men to the first version of A Vision. At the same time it provides the pattern for some of the most beautiful poems. The fulfilment of personality implies the of contraries, that of self and anti-self or mask. Rose, dance, wheel, zodiac are the symbols of re-united contraries, Unity and perfection. Yeats follows the evolution of personality through history and through the successive lives. Besides, the conflict of self and anti-self is an aspect of this quarrel with ourselves which is a source of poetry. Granted the many metamorphoses, where is our true identity ? Among School-Children tries to give an answer. By assuming his identity, Yeats has made the unconscious conscious and expressed the universal self.
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