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As the most prominent two major poets, Yeats and T. S. Eliot share many common interests in their works. However, they also show dramatically contrasting views on several elements. One of these comparison points can be found in “Still point.” In fact, the final destination of the “Still Point” is to discover the human’s reality according to both of them. These two poets also are interested in and express it diversely, depending on image, symbol, mood. This paper looks at the still point through two poets, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. They have a little different tempers, but have a similarity in the sense that they strive for realizing and achieving the still point. First Yeats depends on Byzantium to achieve it. He once visited it and drew what he felt there. For Yeats, Byzantium is suitable to show the still point, so called, moving from “stillness” to “movement”. And Eliot also presents the “still point”, depending on the poet’s memory and experience which he had visited and experienced. After all, Yeats and Eliot try to show “still point” through their poems.