This paper is to discuss the supernatural ecstasy in the “Supernatural Songs”.When focusing his poetry on the physical, Yeats turned his attention more and moretoward the East. While seizing upon an increasingly physical and sexual emphasis,Yeats's secular spiritualism moved in an Eastern, monistic direction. As far as hewas concerned, sexual spirituality was much more compatible with indian spirituality.To embody these instincts and passions, he posited a mythical character by thename of Ribh as the cental character of the “Supernatural Songs”. He tried todisplay a transcendental ecstasy. He associated early Christian Ireland with India. Hedescribed the fictional character of Ribh as an early Christian hermit, who is ninetyyears old.
In the East, Yeats found a propensity toward unity of being that wouldunderscore the essential unity of flesh and spirit so necessary to his thought. The“Supernatural Songs” thus brought together an Eastern amalgamation of Christianityand Asian religiosity, merging the supernatural-spiritual with the natural-physical.Yeats espoused tantric sex, a form of Kundalini, with its emphasis on self and thesexual act as the way to spiritual energy and fulfillment. The word Kundalini meanscoil, which Yeats reflects in the serpent imagery.
In conclusion, Yeats found an imaginative way whereby he was able to fuse thespiritual with the physical in the “Supernatural Songs”. This secular spiritualityallowed Yeats the sexual freedom he sought for. The intense moment of climax isthat conflagration in which all antinomies are resolved, time stands still, and naturalbonds with supernatural. His emphasis on unity of being is compatible with anEastern worldview, which merges all into a monistic unity. Indeed, poetry itself isin Yeats's mind an imaginative alchemy, the transmutation of life into art, a fusingof the spiritual with the material.