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* '' Film/{{IO}}''. Sam Walden develops a fascination with the poem ''Leda and the Swan'', taking the risk of going to a derelict art museum in the toxic zone just to see a painting on the subject.
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* ''Film/MemphisBelle''. Poet wannabe Danny Daly tries to pass off lines from ''An Irish Airman Foresees His Death'' as his own work. Later after he's seriously wounded, Danny blurts out that he could never write something like that.
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* Music/TheCranberries' 1994 song "Yeats' Grave" [[note]]misspelled as "'''Yeat's''' Grave" on the track listing of ''No Need to Argue''[[/note]] is not just about Yeats, but also quotes his poem ''No Second Troy''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'' opens with Bronagh reciting from Yeats' poem "The Stolen Child", which is about a group of fairies trying to lure a child to their world while under the impression that they're sparing the child from suffering. [[spoiler:This foreshadows how Macha the Owl Witch turns fairies and human children alike to stone under the belief that she's taking away their suffering.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'' opens with Bronagh reciting from Yeats' poem "The Stolen Child", which is about a group of fairies trying to lure a child to their world while under the impression that they're sparing the child from suffering. [[spoiler:This foreshadows how Macha the Owl Witch turns steals emotions from fairies and human children alike and turns them to stone under the belief that stone, but she does so because she believes she's taking away their suffering.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'' opens with Bronagh reciting from Yeats' poem "The Stolen Child", which is about a group of fairies trying to lure a child to their world while under the impression that they're sparing the child from suffering. [[spoiler:This foreshadows how Macha the Owl Witch turns fairies and human children alike to stone under the belief that she's taking away their suffering.]]

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* ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'': In [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=242 one of her "Books by their Edward Gorey Cover" strips]] Creator/KateBeaton included an edition of Yeats' autobiography. She interprets the bizarre cover as meaning Yeats is a bird to make her reactionary comic.

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* ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'': In [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=242 one of her "Books by their Edward Gorey Cover" strips]] Creator/KateBeaton included an edition of Yeats' autobiography. She interprets the bizarre cover cover, depicting a bird sitting on a branch, as meaning Yeats is was literally a bird to make her reactionary comic.bird.
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* ''Literature/TheBridgesOfMadisonCounty'': In both the novel and film, Robert Kincaid mentions how much he likes Yeats.
* Delmore Schwartz's most famous story is called "In Dreams Being Responsibilities".
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* In ''Film/DeepCover'', Creator/JeffGoldblum's character quotes a line of Yeats, "In dreams begin responsibilities."[[note]]The original line is actually "In dreams begin responsibility".[[/note]]
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* Music/YellowMagicOrchestra's 1979 song [[Music/SolidStateSurvivor "Behind the Mask"]] bases its lyrics in part on Yeats' poem "The Mask".
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* ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'': In [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=242 one of her "Books by their Edward Gorey Cover" strips]] Creator/KateBeaton included an edition of Yeats' autobiography. She interprets the bizarre cover as meaning Yeats is a bird to make her reactionary comic.

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