The order of poems plays a very important role in Yeats’s book of poemswithout understanding which his poetry cannot be fully appreciated. Hence,understanding Yeats’s poems requires looking into not only a relationship betweenthe poems placed side by side in his Book of poems but also the principle ofarranging the entire poems. The purpose of this paper is to find out a principlewith which Yeats placed his 37 poems for The Wind Among the Reeds. Theprinciple, if there is any, brings us closer to why Yeats moved “The Fiddler ofDooney” from the 11th place in the 1899 edition to the 37th in the 1909 edition.My argument is that Yeats’s arrangement of poems selected in The Wind Amongthe Reeds reflects his poetics which he formed in between 1890’s and 1910’s.Reading Yeats’s essays, “Nationality and Literature” (1893), “The Theater” (1899),“The Symbolism of Poetry” (1900), and “What is Popular Poetry?” (1901), we seethat the poet talks about different subjects matters but reveals his idea of how theliterature develops. Yeats believes that literature goes through three developmentalstages: the epic period; dramatic period and the period of lyric poetry. The epicphase is marked by great racial or national movements and events; the dramaticphase mainly deals with characters who lived in them; and the lyric phase focuseson pure emotion or mood, the seed of which again grows into a tree of epicliterature by stimulating human sensibilities. This cyclical pattern of literature, whichYeats compares with the growth of a tree, is a model after which the poems ofThe Wind Among the Reeds are arranged. That is, the opening poem, “The Hostingof the Sidhe” reflects the epic concern by dealing with great Irish people and soil;the second poem, “The Everlasting Voices,” in which great racial or nationalmovements disappear, talks about old human hearts; and the third poem, “The Moods,” shows the lyric phase concentrating on the birth of mood and itsimmortality. The following 34 poems are arranged in such a way as to mirror theepic-dramatic-lyric pattern; dramatic poems outnumber the epic and lyric poems.This pattern shows Yeats’s message: literature goes through this three developmentalstage and the parts do not exist in isolation from the whole. Yeats also announcesthat he is the poet of Irish people, drama, and lyrics.