While a number of linguistic theories have been developed to study form-content correlation in poetry, there has been little application of these methods to Yeatss verse. This study offers a comprehensive method for the integration of form and content in Yeats which has not been available up to this time. A revealing 1937 statement asserts Yeatss commitment to a clear-cut correspondence between language and subject matter "I need a passionate syntax for passionate subject matter." This statement has been mobilized to lay the ground for a reading of key poems that is geared toward showing how...