... ; yet he dismisses both of these and places the philosophers as metaphoric scarecrows and the passions as the ironic 'mockers' of our enterprise and labour. Yeats guises towards the natural world for a talisman, or anything else to prove the possibility of an Edenic existence. Yeats alludes to the unity of human existence into 'the leaf, the blossom' and &apos ... ;the bole' which compromises his tensions with the acceptance for natural order and passage of life. He finds unity for these irreconcilable opposites in the tension between the form and freedom of poetry and the artis...

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