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Dance and Rhythm: Their Meaning in Yeats and Noh

IN YEATS AND THE NOH POETRY emerges primarily through symbols and ideas. Yet their poetry truly exists when they are elevated into the dimension of a static art where transcendent calm and repose lend an atmosphere of dreamy torpor. This is stasis or yugen of poetry, the supreme moment of aesthetic suspension that brings the mind into harmony with the ways of the universe as well as with its own inner self. The harmony is a musical one, orchestrated toward, an epiphany and vision, sustained by a poetic image powerfully symbolizing its deep spiritual import. As Yeats himself tells us, this is a condition of chimera, an experience that imparts the maiden truth that "art is art, because it is not nature." Being remote from nature and reality, their poetry is necessarily "strange." This strangeness and tranquility in Yeats and the Noh is primarily derived from the ambience of dance and rhythm, a matter not too clearly understood now despite the fact that dance and rhythm frequently constitute the whole meanin...