THE OTHER WORLD, W.B.

YEATS National Library of Ireland There are certain irreducible symbols, the idea that there is Great Memory, Great Mind, Anima Mundi, Soul of the World, that stores everything that has been humanly thought, everything that was humanly felt. He sees the World Mediated through symbols. He always sees Nature as a symbol of something else. The oet may choose symbol and he may choose one or two of its association for him. !ut that symbol by its very nature has another "#, $# associations which other readers may %ic& u%. And this Symbol has this Great Memory of Anima Mundi and its sustaining. That generates language. 'anguage has not only %ower of communication, but %ower of evocation. (ou can evo&e or invo&e %owers or s%irits through it, through language.