Abstract

Yeats was one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century English and Irish literature. When discussing the rich content of Yeats’s poems, most scholars intend to investigate the occult thought, the theory of circle and symbolism. It is noteworthy that biblical archetypes and Yeats’s spiritual pursuit for harmony lie behind them. The Ark of Art in Yeats’s two poems—“The Second Coming” and “Sailing to Byzantium” frees poet from the chaos in the Last Days and brings him to pursue the God of Art to harmonize himself, poetics, art and macrocosm.

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