As before, pick several poems for close reading and try to piece out Yeats's developing influences, whether Romantic, Preraphaelite, or an emerging modernism. When looking at The Seven Woods we saw a Yeats who is willing to allow antinomies to remain unresolved, showing the negative capability prized as much by modern critics as by the Romantics who coined the term. Does he display this faculty in these poems? Is the somewhat younger Yeats more effective in any way?
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