ABSTRACT
‘Ego Dominus Tuus’ is one of W.B. Yeats’s later poems published in The Wild Swans at Coole (1919). The paper purports to put forward the idea that like other dialogue poems of Yeats it is meant to resolve a crisis in the poetic life of the poet. The poet wishes to find out, rather travel into the mindset of, a new ideology of poetic creation or karyitri pratibha as it is called in Sanskrit poetics. He held earlier, under the influence of his father, that a work of art should bring out the artist’s authentic personality. Now he is trying to believe that the artist in his work tries to show exactly what he is not but would like to be, his ‘antithetical self’ or ‘Daimon’.
