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This study aims at investigating W.B. Yeats’ ideas of contraries and pursues to understand the methods of unifying contraries and the significance of Unity of Being in his poetic world. Yeats attempted to embody a harmonious world through trying to meld an opposing world. These opposites include reason and sense, body and soul. He thought he would reach a perfect state, ‘Unity of Being’ through struggle between these conflicting factors. In his early poetry, he wandered between the ideal and real world, in search of fairy lands. But through his hard personal experiences, he found that the discord and conflict between his ideal and real world. After he was aware of a limited life and an old body, he wanted to navigate to Holy Byzantium, the ideal world of the soul. He wanted to incarnate himself as immortal arts. But he realized it was too difficult to achieve Unity of Being without harmonious conjunction between body and soul. And he recognized that the ideal world must be a part of the real world. (Korea Nazarene University)