Yeats is using mummy-cloth as a symbol for life's experiences on earth, part of his esoteric belief in the gyre, the whirling motion associated with each great age. So the cloth is wound on in one age and unwound in the afterlife and so on and so forth. Yeats used a similar idea i...
Yeats once described the theater he envisaged as “a memory and a prophecy.” Following this, the W.B. Yeats Foundation has made a special commitment to realizing Yeats’s vision of a “total theatre” combining poetry, music, dance and the visual arts in a highly expressive and holistic ...