ABSTRACT
The comparative examination of the poetic works of W. B. Yeats and of Fernando Pessoa undertaken in a study throughout this book has demonstrated that their deployment of parallel strategies of stylistic diversification accounts for the numerous affinities between their poetic works. By comprehensively comparing the affinities between the two poets, such as their diverse interests and themes, their methods of stylistic diversification, their deployment of personae, and the analogous aesthetic and metaphysical values underpinning their poetic praxis, this monograph in the book has demonstrated how the two poets constructed parallel multifaceted poetics. Some of the parallels between Yeats and Pessoa identified in this study derive from the specific historical and cultural contexts in which they were writing, reflecting a modernist search for Self through style. Yeats and Pessoa both intended to reinvigorate the national literary production of Ireland and Portugal respectively by introducing new poetic styles suited to express the specific worldviews of their cultures.
