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I think “A Coat” and the paradoxes surrounding Yeats’ transition and general growth as a poet becomes even more complicated when juxtaposed with part VI of Upon a Dying Lady, “Her Courage.” Yeats writes in “Her Courage” “When her soul flies to the predestined dancing-place / (I have no speech but symbol, the pagan speech I made / Amid the dreams of youth).” In “A Coat” Yeats casts off symbolic and mythological “embroidery,” yet in “Her Courage,” which was written later, he once again dons that embroidery. When considering why he does this, I wondered whether the context of a death and the recognition of his own mortality may have driven Yeats to reflect upon the vicissitude of his poetic style up through this point in his life. Something about death makes him “have no speech but symbol.” As the poem progresses, he maintains that symbolic and mythological language: “All but the terrors of the woodland flight forgot / That made her Diarmuid dear…” Accordingly, Yeats refers back to the woodland that he often wrote of in his younger days, and alluding to Diarmuid, a character from Irish mythology, revitalizes his Irish cultural nationalism. In this instance, Yeats reflects upon the poetry of his youth and contradicts the move performed in “A Coat” thus further complicating the paradoxes seen in his transition