예이츠의 환상록 속의 신비적-환상적 작품은 두 가지 인식 흐름, 즉 하 향적이거나 상향적 움직임, 다시 말해서 신적 존재의 하향적 목소리와 인간의 상향적 목소리의 흐름을 보인다. 이원적 의식의 흐름은 곧 시인의 인식론적 마음을 표현하는 과정이며, 불교의 중도론적 인식 과정을 대변한다. 예이츠의 신비학도 이 불가지 세계 에 대한 인식론적 반응이며, 대체적으로그의 문학적 의도성은 시인의 원소론적 마음을 드러내는 고정, 심학(心學)이라고 할 수 있다. 다만 만성제야 시에 드러나듯이, 4 원소 인의 인식 형상이 인식론적 도식화 과정의 어려움을 대변해준다.
Yeats's "The Wind Among the Reeds" shows that the sound/voice he finds in the reeds of his mind is reshaped at the first phase as the host(ghost) of the air and at the later phases as a specific object, such as a Perfect/White Beauty. In the present valley where the passion of the Shadowy Horse runs rampantly, the poet yearns for the unappeasable host(ghost) to be animated or transformed into a meaningful expression, the soul of language, and its own self-expression. This repetitive images have three self-expressive entities: Speaker, Hearer, and Dreamer. The dreamer mourns and pleads for the ideal objectivity of his beloved Beauty, and speaks to the blessed. By speaking or expressing, he transforms himself into a creative speaker. He speaks out his heart, moods, love towards the Secret Rose. At the same time he hears himself. The signifier of the speaker reiterates itself as the signified for the hearer. The hearer, losing all travail of passion and windy voices, understands his own passivity and past greatness. This dual process of "speaking himself hear" and "hearing himself speak" turns out to be "auto-affection". The external love toward the Beauty reverses to the internal love. It is the absolute reduction of his poetic mind and purity to fit for univesality. His subjectivity, voices, consciousness, and passions, by way of the immediate repetition/reduction/auto-affection, turn ino heart-rendering poetry of affectivity and universality. It is one of the elements that make his poetry great.