Yeats’s Stanzas, Yeats’s Rooms

This chapter shows the connection between Yeats’s writing and his dwelling place is still more intimate than the ones explored in the previous chapter. It suggests that the forms that Yeats frequently wrote in for the dozen-or-so years from 1919-grand, architecturally constructed octave stanzas-shape and influence the imagery in the poems themselves. Yeats started writing in these great forms at around the same time as he moved into a renovated medieval fortification in the rural west of Ireland, a fact that suggests how close the relationship between writing and dwelling can be. Like Andrew Lanyon’s imagined architectural structure that is both made of a metaphorical creative wind and inspires further creation, Yeats’s forms give rise to the images that fill the stanzas themselves.