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The Rhetoric of Repetition in Yeats's Poems

The purpose of this paper is to study the rhetoric of repetition in Yeats's poems. Yeats frequently uses a sound, a word, a phrase, a line, or a sentence repeatedly in various places in his poems for many other purposes. He also uses a refrain in the same metrical pattern in his poems. The Rhetoric of Repetition in Yeats's Poems plays a great role in establishing the mood of a poem or reinforces the theme of a poem. For example, by using the same sentence repeatedly at the last line of each stanza in "Crazy Jane on God," Yeats attempts to express some incantatory effects. Yeats repeats some specific thematically important words. He repeatedly uses "what then" six times at the last line of each stanza in his poem "What then?" in order to emphasize what the most important goal in his life is. Yeats's theory of gyres and lunar phases shows his basic beliefs. Yeats thinks that history is repeated on the Great Wheel and the twenty-eight phases of the moon are repeated continuously. Therefore, the Rhetoric of Repetition in Yeats's Poems also reflects his theory of gyres and lunar phases.