This paper reads Yeats`s “Meditations in Time of Civil War” to identify the speaker`s frustration and ambivalent feelings that have been discussed in the light of different thematic variants in other readings. This paper first argues that the speaker`s emotional instability throughout the series of poems arises from a crisis of the philosopher-poet`s sense of identity in time of turbulent chaos. This paper further discusses how the vacillating mind of the speaker exhibits a typical trajectory of any effort to pursue a stable symbol that can accommodate the irreconcilable oppositions. Thus, this paper concludes that what keeps the speaker`s vacillations persisting is none other than his recognition that oppositions themselves are not stable all the time because of the indeterminate nature of the binary relationship.