Both Wordsworth and Yeats dream of the establishment of a new republic and the independence of Ireland, undergoing the French Revolution and the Easter Rising. The violence and bloodshed, which these historical events bring about, however, change the two poets's mind. They come to have ambivalent feelings, constantly questioning their own judgment of the terrible historical events. Wordsworth and Yeats could face confusing historical events only in nature and language, not completely eliminating their ambivalence in the events, though. The two poets constantly travel between the light and shadow of the French Revolution and the Easter Rising, expressing joy and sorrow, affirmation and denial, hope and fear.

This essay compares and analyzes Yeats's and Dickinson's concept of God. While their contemporaries unconditionally accept God as presented in Christianity, the two poets confront and resist Christian doctrines and its institution. Each has a vision of God, man, and the world. Dickinson does not take lightly the violence and suffering under the name of God, constantly questioning the self, the church, and faith. She resists and takes a critical attitude toward God; Christianity and its institution taken for granted at the time; Christian doctrines, in which God is the center of absolute sovereignty. In the meantime, Yeats focuses on the subconscious of humanity, thus interpreting the Christian spirit and doctrine from his own occult and mysterious viewpoint. Both Yeats and Dickinson make great efforts to illustrate the correspondence and relationship between God and self through subjective perception.