Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Tower

7. Is wisdom compatible with life and power according to this poem?

Bloo and the moon

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I think Yeats points out that the moon symbolizes wisdom, 'a property of the dead,/A something incompatible with life'. He does however link wisdom with the dead and power with the living.