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This article explores the primitive art of Yeats’s plays. The aboriginal element Yeats uses is identified as all that primitive people created through their “imaginative passions.” Primitive art is closely associated with the ancient Greek art in which humanized gods are involved in the rise and fall of human lives. This article discusses how gods’ involvement in the human world is dramatized by Yeats through an analysis of his three plays: On Bail’s Strand(1904), The Hour-Glass(1914), and The Herne’s Egg(1938). In conclusion, this article argues that the major reason why the playwright pursued an primitive art is that he believed it was closer to “everyman’s desire” and took for granted the supernatural reality which he constantly sought to present on the stage.