본 논문의 목적은 『켈트족의 여명』에 사용된 이중서사기법이 에세이와 스토리, 두 장르를 결합하는 한편 시인의 반자아의 마스크로서 기능하는 점을 살펴보는 것이다. 『켈트족의 여명』은 아일랜드의 민담을 정확하고 솔직하게 편집하고자 한 예이츠의 독특하고도 창의적인 시도이다. 상상력을 사용하지 않았다는 그의 주장에도 불구하고 『켈트족의 여명』은 보편적인 상상력과 개인적인 상상력으로 가득한 책이다. 그것의 내러티브는, 예이츠가 전통 및 동시대의 작가들로부터 배워온 고도로 정교한 마스크를 통해 이루어지고 있다. 과거에 상실한 존재의 통합을 복원하는 것이 예이츠의 담대한 목적이었는데 비록 상업주의가 지배하는 세계에서 필연적으로 실패할 운명이라 해도 그는 결코 초월적 비전과 이를 향한 수단으로서 예술에 대한 신뢰를 포기한 적이 없었다. 통합을 상실한 시대의 반자아를 대변하는 서사적 마스크가 본질적으로 모순적이듯 시인의 상상력과 믿음 그리고 꿈 또한 모순적일 수밖에 없는 현실에서 예술만이 희망임을 그는 너무도 잘 알고 있었기 때문이다.

Per Amica Silentia Lunae (Yeats translated it into Through the Friendly Silences of Moon) was written between January and May of 1917, and consists of a Prologue and an Epilogue for Iseult Gonne, "Ego Dominus Tuss," Anima Hominis and Anima Mundi. In Anima Mundi Yeats said, "I have always sought to bring my mind close to the mind of Indian and Japanese poets, old women in Connacht, mediums in Soho, lay brothers whom I imagine dreaming in some mediaeval monastery the dreams of their village, learned authors who refer all to antiquity: to immerse it in the general mind where that mind is scarce separable from what we have began to call 'the subconscious'... ." In the background of his theory of anti-self there are Indian and Japanese Religious thought, Celtic folklore, Spiritualism, the Order of Golden Dawn, and the great poet Dante. "Ego Dominus Tuss" is a dialogue between two men, Hic and Ille, who discuss poetry and creative process. Ille, like Yeats, is a daimonic poet walking in the moonlight. For Yeats, lunar and subjective were always the antitheses to solar and objective. Poesis called for complete subjectivity, for entry into the friendly silence of the moon. The moon is always associated with feminine divinity. With the help of a mask, Ille is calling to the opposite of his daily self, his anti-self. In the end of the poem, Ille found his anti-self. In Anima Hominis Yeats said that the saint like Christ and Buddha, and the poets like Dante and Keats attained the anti-self. The anti-self is a egoless self, the higher self. Saint, hero, and poet are all inspired. Yeats said, "Saint or hero works in his own flesh and blood and not in paper or parchment, have more deliberate understanding of that other flesh and blood." Only when Yeats became the anti-self could he become a totally subjective mind, overcome the illusion of duality, and find a "revelation of realty." Yeats could receive daimonic inspiration only during visionary experiences. Finally Yeats found the anti-self he felt ecstasy. According to his theory, the production of art was an expression of the artist's longing for "Unity of Being." In Per Amica silentia Lunae Yeats said "the poet, because he may not stand within the sacred house but lives amid the whirlwinds that beset its threshold, may find his pardon."