Dec 22, 2009

Autobiographies | Themes

The Supernatural
Yeats’s awareness of the supernatural began at an early age. While living with his grandparents in Sligo, he saw ‘‘a supernatural bird in the corner of the room.’’ He relates that he dreamed one night that his grandfather’s ship had wrecked. The next morning he awoke to find that his dream had come true. These and other events prompted Yeats to consider the existence of spirits or of an alternative plane of reality and launched his life-long interest in the supernatural.

Autobiographies is filled with stories of unexplained events,...