William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), a great poet, prose writer and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate, father of English modernism and his opponent, called his work “tragic,” seeing it as based on “conflict” and “war of opposites,” “ whirlpool of bitterness" or "life". Yates's plays often resemble the dramas of Blok and Gumilyov. But for the Russian symbolists, myth and history were, rather, material for rethinking and artistic play, and for Yeats - an ever-living source of the original tragedy of life. In down-to-earth and prosaic characters, he knows how to see the freshness and vitality of myth - tragic and heroic. And therefore, the music of tramps for him is the music of Homer, for Yeats’s tramps at the nomadic hearth convey the eternal tragic melody of life, serve as a link in a mythological goal that has reached the 21st century, a link that seemed lost.