The Use of Symbol in the Poetry of
Baudelaire and Yeats

by Linn Cary Mehta

"Three Movements"

Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand;
What are all these fish that lie gasping on the sand?

W.B. Yeats

For Professors R.W.B. Lewis and Paul de Man

CONTENTS

PREFACE

I. SUGGESTION IN BAUDELAIRE'S POETRY

A. Introduction

B. "Le Cygne" and other poems

II. ACTION IN YEATS'S POETRY

A. Introduction

B. "Leda and the Swan" and other poems

III. SYMBOL, YEATS, AND BAUDELAIRE

Bibliography

Source Poems