W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats On June 13, 1865 the erie town of Sandymount, Ireland welcomed William Butler Yeats, who later becomes a legend in modern English literature. In 1867 his family moved to London, but he frequently visited his grandparents in Northern Ireland. There he was immensely influenced by the folklore of the region. Eventually in 1881 his family returned to Dublin. There Yeats studied at the Metropolitan School of Art, getting increasingly more focused on literature, and later evolving into one of the greatest Symbolist poets of his time. Being a Symbolist poet, he uses allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career to captivate generations to come. Its fair to propose that Yeats is generally considered one of the twentieth century's key English language poets after accomplishing more than three-hundred and seventy poems and eight plays (Yeats 1, 1).
Yeats is an important author in English Literature for numerous reasons, some can go on and on about how his accomplishments influenced the lives of numerous individuals, even his home country. But in a literary perspective Yeats is an important author for the mere fact that he can chose words and assembled them in a manner that implies particular meaning, while at the same time suggesting other abstract thoughts that may seem more significant and resonant (Ulanov, 66). “His use of symbols is usually something physical that is both itself and a suggestion of other, perhaps immaterial, timeless qualities” (Gale, 303). From the perspective of many, William Butler Yeats is one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century. As well as, one of the, if not the greatest poets from Ireland. He speaks verse so beautifully, yet so depressingly (Bryfonski, 553). “One can probably not read his poems and not be moved, or at least saddened. Yeats' poetry doesn't abandon logic, it springs from a deeper well than mere logic ever swam in” (Bryfonski, 555). Many of his poems such as The
Yeats is an important author in English Literature for numerous reasons, some can go on and on about how his accomplishments influenced the lives of numerous individuals, even his home country. But in a literary perspective Yeats is an important author for the mere fact that he can chose words and assembled them in a manner that implies particular meaning, while at the same time suggesting other abstract thoughts that may seem more significant and resonant (Ulanov, 66). “His use of symbols is usually something physical that is both itself and a suggestion of other, perhaps immaterial, timeless qualities” (Gale, 303). From the perspective of many, William Butler Yeats is one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century. As well as, one of the, if not the greatest poets from Ireland. He speaks verse so beautifully, yet so depressingly (Bryfonski, 553). “One can probably not read his poems and not be moved, or at least saddened. Yeats' poetry doesn't abandon logic, it springs from a deeper well than mere logic ever swam in” (Bryfonski, 555). Many of his poems such as The