WB Yeats was born in 1865 in Dublin. His parents were John Butler Yeats‚ a portrait painter‚ and Susan Pollexfen. His family was upper class‚ Protestant and of Anglo-Irish descent. His ancestors were church rectors. The Yeats family had aspirations to maintain its wealth and traditions and this shaped WB Yeats and his poetry. At the age of two‚ Yeats moved with his family to London‚ where they remained for Yeat’s childhood. He developed an affinity with Sligo because he spent a lot of summers with
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Coming’ is a particularly interesting focal point by which we empathise with Yeats’ despair at the breakdown of humanity and it affect on society (in particular Ireland). Conversely one may suggest that the concept of a ‘Second Coming‘ implies that Yeats feels hope for the future‚ as the title clearly alludes to the return of Christ thus suggesting the salvation of humanity. ‘September 1913’ is another poem in which Yeats expresses his despair at the changing society at the hands of the merciless
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Short Essay On W.B. Yeats And T.S. Eliot’ Poetry: Main Similarities And Differences Seemingly‚ W.B. Yeats and T.S Eliot’s lives have quite a lot in common: both authors were born in the second half of the 19th century and reached to be very outstanding figures of 20th century English poetry; in fact‚ both of them were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature at some point of their careers. So one might think that their poems share some inherent characteristics for they have been written during
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extinction of personality in the form of void as a superior creative excellence is definitely more than mere excellence in the art of poetry. It is the ascent of excellence‚ indeed‚ the ascent of poetry and the poet. Unlike any other mystic poet‚ W. B. Yeats enters into the world of mystic void when he is at his best in sonnets. As a matter of fact‚ the mystic aroma in his poetic creations finds its most serene and poignant efflorescence when he creates the mesmeric mystic void in his mature sonnets.
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Literature: William Butler YeatsIn the literary world‚ among the 20th century giants is William Butler Yeats. An Irish-born dramatist‚ poet and prose writer‚ Yeats is regarded as one of the towering giants of English-language writing for the century. Yeats‚ who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923‚ was one of those responsible for the famed Irish Literary Renaissance movement (Hallstrom). One of Yeats ’ greatest works is The Land of Heart ’s Desire‚ a magical fairy poetry that is
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his works (“A Coat”‚ “The Fool by the Roadside”‚ “Two Songs of a Fool”‚ etc.)‚ Yeats is continually portraying the actions of humans towards love as foolish. Furthermore‚ "Cap and Bells came to Yeats in a dream most likely steaming from his obsessive infatuation he had for Maud Gonne. Being an acclaimed actress‚ Yeats most likely perceived Gonne as exceeding him in status; her queen and him the jester. Like many of Yeats poems‚ “The Cap and Bells” develops a lyrical tone full of emotion and images
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William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. 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 seventeenth century. Most members of this minority considered themselves English people who merely happened to have been born in Ireland‚ but Yeats was staunch in affirming his Irish nationality. Although he lived in London for fourteen
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Themes in Yeats’ poetry You can find many themes in Yeats’ poetry. Pick what suits your own study from the themes‚ comments and quotes listed below. There are 86 quotes used to illustrate themes on this page (although some of them are from poems outside the current OCR selection for AS Level). You will need only a short selection of these. 1. The theme of death or old age and what it leaves behind. Death of Patriotism‚ leaving selfishness as the norm: ‘Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone‚ It’s
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soliloquy- irrationality Swans- transient nature of life‚ its purpose‚ the use of question W.B Yeats has explicitly referred to his works of poetry as a process whereby he expresses his own search for identification‚ a way of externalising what is an inner struggle; “We make out of the quarrel with others‚ rhetoric‚ but of the quarrel with ourselves‚ poetry.” Throughout his life and work‚ Yeats engaged in a “quarrel” with himself that has emerged as a distinctive quality in all of his poetry
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the title of Yeats’ poem‚ “The Second Coming”‚ one might expect to read about the glorious return of Christ to save his followers. However‚ Yeats’ exposes a miserable world where anarchy and chaos reign over the innocence of man. Through the use of images and allusions that portray a dark and foreboding atmosphere‚ Yeats warns us of what may lie ahead for humankind if we continue on our current path. The first stanza in “The Second Coming” describes the chaotic scene that Yeats sees occurring
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