W. B. Yeats’s The Dreaming of the Bones and the Limits of Global Modernism

Abstract

This piece attempts to reconcile specificity with abstraction, Ireland with Japan, the present with the past in The Dreaming of the Bones. The landscape works as a historical palimpsest of a contested history, a balancing of the poetics of place and non-place. Yeats maps his world using different scales of measurement.