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After Yeats had finished his first work, The Wanderings of Oisin, in 1889, he commented “I was dissatisfied with its yellow and its dull green, with all that overcharged colour inherited from the romantic movement, I deliberately reshaped my style.” And he also said that “when in my twenty-second year I had finished The Wanderings of Oisin, my style seemed too elaborate, too ornamental.” So, he decided that he would simplify his style by filling his imagination with country stories. All of the tries are crucial proofs that he tried to find the styles for his own ones. And, at last, he creates his universal images, a phoenix-like, immortal, the “coloured Asian birds” of The Wanderings of Oisin, which become a predecessor, the “Golden Bird” of ｢Sailing to Byzantium｣. Therefore, although his early works have many flaws, we cannot degrade their values and significances that paved the way for the Last Poems. In conclusion, the two works, The Wanderings of Oisin and ｢Sailing to Byzantium｣are closely connected each other in spite of their 40-year-distance.