William Butler Yeats’s later poems are more significant than generallyappreciated in that they involve two different forms of art, sculpture andpoetry. Sculpture, in particular, attracted Yeats the most because he felt itrepresented the universal Self integrated in the Great Memory as well as theAnima Mundi. Having Michael Angelo’s Leda statues in mind, he exploreda creative way to carve the muscular beauty and the passionate spirit of theIrish people in his poetry. Speculating on the unity of Being in tandem withthe unity of a sculpture’s formative power and a poet’s imaginative power,Yeats could finally overcome the signs of his bodily decrepitude andsublimate his anxiousness into a creative driving force to remake his self inthe universal Self of Ireland