The Song of Wandering Aengus

On May 11, Yeats wrote to Lady Gregory that he had received a letter from his long-time muse Maud Gonne, who had written from France with the belief that the revolutionaries had “raised the Irish cause again to a position of tragic dignity” (White 372). He went on to relate his own attempts to interpret recent events: “I am trying to write a poem on the men executed—‘terrible beauty has been born again.’” (Wade 613). The phrase “terrible beauty,” with its initial “t” and final “ty,” seems to echo Gonne’s “tragic dignity,” though the negatively charged “terrible” strains against “beauty,” making Yeats’s phrase more ambivalent than Gonne’s. Yeats may not have used the word “tragic,” but a sense of tragedy pervades “Easter, 1916.” Recalling life before the

When Yeats moved back to London to pursue his interest in Arts, he met famous writers like Maud Gonne. The Poem “To Ireland in the Coming Times” is one of the poems Yeats wrote in 1892 and was published in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends. “Know, that I would accounted

The images of a war-torn landscape and the anonymity of the mother murdered at her door evoke the feelings of fear felt by readers in the time. Bradley writes “Yeats’ language broadens the context so that so that it could be any mother and child in the ravaged landscape of wartime” (115). The violet nature of the poem provides a domineering relation to place, one which feels inescapable. According to Michael Wood, violence in Yeats’ poetry “whether personal, political or apocalyptic—is always sudden and surprising, visible, unmistakable, inflicts or promises injury and is fundamentally uncontrollable.”

William Butler Yeats is one of the most esteemed poets in 20th century literature and is well known for his Irish poetry. While Yeats was born in Ireland, he spent most of his adolescent years in London with his family. It wasn’t until he was a teenager that he later moved back to Ireland. He attended the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and joined the Theosophical Society soon after moving back. He was surrounded by Irish influences most of his life, but it was his commitment to those influences and his heritage that truly affected his poetry. William Butler Yeats’s poetry exemplifies how an author’s Irish identity can help create and influence his work.

Yeats works drew heavily on Irish mythology and history, he never fully embraced his Protestant past nor joined the majority or Ireland Roman Catholics but he devoted much of his life to the study in myriad other subjects. The Irish writer’s James O’ Grady and Sir William Ferguson were the most influential. Through his writing Yeats found his voice to speak up against the harsh nationalist policies of the time, his early dramatic works conveyed his respect for Irish legend and fascination with occult. Yeats mother was the first introduce him and his sisters to the Irish folktales he grew to love so much but little did you know that his brother jack and father was also an accomplished artist and they both helped William in his writing and it's the reason he found his own interest in the wonderful arts as he called them. In 1894 Yeats met friend and patron Lady Augusta Gregory and thus began their involvement with The Irish Literary Theatre which was founded in 1899 in Dublin. Along with literature, he also loved the theater and wrote several plays. He collaborated with the likes of Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and George Moore to establish the Irish Literary Theatre for the purpose of performing Irish and Celtic plays. As a dramatist, his successful works included ‘The Countess Cathleen’ (1892), ‘The Land of Heart’s Desire’ (1894) and ‘The King’s Threshold’

Yeats often took pride in his Irish roots unlike many, and let those same roots drive his life as much as he let them drive the content of his works from his remarkable poetic compositions to his breath taking stage productions. “The poetry of W.B. Yeats has to be reckoned with as a force which was both influenced by and deeply influenced the crystallization of the Irish ethnicity and identity” (“W.B. Yeats Poetry: Crystallizing..”). As much influence his identity played on his poetry his poetic expression of if affected the crystallization of the identity itself. Over the course of his works and of his life Yeats very much had his own impact on what the Irish identity was in itself. Extraordinarily dropping the preconceived notions of what it meant to be Irish , to speak Gallic, to be catholic, or protestant, Yeats surpassed the ideal and lived the reality accepting all that came along with being Irish: the good, the bad, and the ugly of its religion, its truth, and its history. Yeats led all this by example through his work for Ireland and its cause of independence in his life and through his written works beyond his death. “Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period, which sought to

Yeats was a confessional poet - that is to say, that he wrote his poetry directly from his own experiences. He was an idealist, with a purpose. This was to create Art for his own people - the Irish. But in so doing, he experienced considerable frustration and disillusionment. The tension between this ideal, and the reality is the basis of much of his writing. One central theme of his earlier poetry is the contrast

Yeats wrote this poem in respect of Major Robert Gregory, who died in the War. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death is written in the background of the Easter 1916 when the Irish people have demanded the independence from Britain. This poem was written for Gregory’s devoted duty for his countrymen by joining in the British Royal Flying Company (Walsh, 2012). In Easter 1916, Yeats proposed that Ireland had to confirm its independence and states identity through rebellion and the affectionate discovery of change. So, the unwanted bloodshed and sacrifice perpetually change the state of the

Yeats in many of his poem he portray about how Ireland undergone so many difficulties under British rule. His love and affection for his country are mostly seem in his poems. The poem Easter 1916 and To Ireland in coming are written in order to show the struggle taken by Ireland for freedom. In the poem “To Ireland in the coming times” mainly focuses on Yeats view on the changes taking place in the country. Before Ireland is under British rule but now as time passed Ireland is declared as free state. And Ireland was undergoing a change from a nation under British rule to a nation of its own with an identity. It also mainly focuses on Yeats feelings that Ireland is a strong nation and no matter what the obstacles may be the nation has always

Within the last four lines of “Easter 1916”, William Butler Yeats concludes the first stanza with a sombre and melancholic tone which portrays a theme of political change. In this poem, Yeats demonstrates his personal opinion on the Easter Rising. The placement of the lines contrasts with the previous lines as it introduces a new theme of change as contradictory to the mood set in the beginning. The significance of the lines is how it changes the initial rhyme scheme of ABAB, which emphasizes phrases, interrupting the flow of the poem. This can be interpreted as a turning point for the poem since it introduces a motif of the Easter Rising. Yeats’ point of view is based on his personal beliefs and influences how the poem is written throughout.

As the reader looks deeper into the poem he/she might find alternate meanings behind the luring of the child. Yeats was a nationalist during a time of great political upheaval in Ireland. Nationalists wanted Ireland return to years before when Ireland was considered one nation. The Celtic images of the past could represent a desire to return to a time where Ireland was united. The freedom that the faery world allows is representative of the freedom that unity throughout Ireland allowed before religion and politics became large issues.

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, a dramatist, and a prose writer - one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century. (Yeats 1) His early poetry and drama acquired ideas from Irish fable and arcane study. (Eiermann 1) Yeats used the themes of nationalism, freedom from oppression, social division, and unity when writing about his country. Yeats, an Irish nationalist, used the three poems, “To Ireland in the Coming Times,” “September 1913” and “Easter 1916” which revealed an expression of his feelings about the War of Irish Independence through theme, mood and figurative language.

William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865, in Dublin, Irelandtheson of a well-known Irish painter, John Butler Yeatsand died in January 28, 1939, Menton,France. Yeats was deeply complex in politics in Ireland, and in the twenties, notwithstanding Irish independence from England. William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the important figures of 20th century’s literature considering one of the greatestpoets of a century. W.B Yeats’ poems The Easter1916written in 1916 andan Irish Airman foresees His Deathwritten in 1918and published in 1919, exposes two different groups of people who went to wars during First World War in reflective narrative form. Those

Who is William Butler Yeats? William Butler Yeats is regarded as one of the finest poets of the century. Also, his return to the past as one would say has helped him to have a place in the future. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and Yeats was educated there and in London as well. The young man was very immersed into the barren mountains, and in the mythology and the legends of Ireland. From the Poetry Foundation stated, “He belonged to the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic, political, social, and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the 17th century.”After having this wonderful background that was full of experience Yeats wrote some of the most famous

As described in, The Journal’s article on Cathleen ni Houlihan, “Yeats led a colonization in reverse”. What Yeats wanted to accomplish was to eliminate the presence of the British in Ireland. William Butler Yeats was born as a wealthy protestant, a minority group in the country. Even though he did not speak Gaelic he wanted to connect with the people of his country and did not want to associate with the British culture. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Yeats thought that literature and poetry was a way to fill the political void left by the death of Irish political leader Charles Stewart. Through the years, Yeats rolled out various numbers of plays and poems with the most important one perhaps being Cathleen ni Houlihan.