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3 In order to present this war Yeats had to create a new form, since none of the available modes of presentation was adequate. Barton Friedman, in his study ofYeats's drama Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind, centres on the isolation of the tragic moment, the idea of suspension in the light of a judgement day. He argues that Yeats, in the Cuchulain cycle, is intent on freeing man from 'the nightmare ofhistory'. 4 Yeats replaces this with an appeal to man's innermost psyche and drama becomes 'a vehicle for attuning him to this innermost aspect of himself'.

The closing lines of the play refer us to the opposition between Emer and Fand, who become one another. Their battle may be seen to take place, as does the entire action of the play, within Cuchulain's trance, under water: Why does your heart beat thus? Plain to be understood, I have met in a man's house A statue of solitude, Moving there and walking; Its strange heart beating fast The Landscape of Tragedy: Three Dance Plays 53 For all our talking. 0 still that heart at last. With The Dreaming of the Bones we return to a close following of the Noh theatre.

Look at her shivering now, the terrible life Is slipping through her veins. This is the sign that the well will bubble up with water. But Yeats's real concern in the play is to place Cuchulain in conflict with the Sidhe. When the Guardian is possessed, she parallels the position of man in conflict with this other world. As the poet facing his muse, or as the hero facing his doom, she stand~ in relation to her other self as hawk, dancer, and woman of the Sidhe. The Old Man tells us that she will awake out of her trance 'in ignorance of it all'.

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