Douglas Hyde. Yeats was returned to Ireland in 1896. In the next ten years, Yeats was involved in the literary work related to Irish Literary revival and participated in founding the Abbey Theatre. Along with these poetic and playwright activities, Yeats was also involved in the politics and hold on a position of senator. He was developed his acclaim in the political sphere. Thus these three aspects of Yeats life, Irish folklore, the supernatural, and politics made influence on his literary work. In 1923, Yeats won a Nobel Prize for literature and in 1934 shared the Gothenburg Prize with Rudyard Kipling. Yeats was died in 1939.
There was a number of literary works created by Yeats. His poetry can be discussed with two different periods. First
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His expression in poetry was just ordinary, which drawn by the influence of poets of the Victorian era. Yeats was elaborated his work in descriptive way.
During second period, there was a major influence of age and political involvements on the literary work by Yeats. His work no longer existed in the realms of the spiritual and was far less colorful and aesthetically descriptive. Along with this, his themes were realistic, based on politics and Irish life. The dichotomy between this time period and the first period, as discussed above, is influenced as one of his common themes, the physical held up against the meta-physical and the harsh reality of Irish life in contrast to the optimistic themes of its folklore.
His work turned out to be more individual with his subjects including close companions, family and significant others and he looked to delineate the experience of maturing and its impact on these connections. In the second time of his work, Yeats investigated and aced the conventional types of verse. He took impact from innovation by giving his topics a more genuine and direct way to deal with the presentation of his subjects, rather than the more expand way of the past
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The world portrayed is very nearly a heaven, without the impedance of man to ruin things - the storyteller's vicinity in this normal world is kept to a base, with his little lodge intended to mix in with the environment. Every line of the lyric serves to enhance this picture of a perfect life, which makes the penultimate line more effective, as we are left uncertain with reference to whether the narrator will ever achieve the life he so wants. The ABAB rhyme structure authorizes this sentiment nature, calming musicality to the lyric, as does the similar sounding word usage in the second line of the third
In regard to the Nationalists, he incorporates traditional Irish characters, such as Fergus and the Druids, to create an Irish mythology and thereby foster a national Irish identity. After the division of the Cultural Nationalists, Yeats feels left behind by the movement and disillusioned with their violent, "foolish" methods. He is also repeatedly rejected by Gonne. These efforts to instigate change through poetry both fail, bringing the function of the poet and his poetry into question. If these unfruitful poems tempt him from his ?craft of verse,?
William Yeats is deliberated to be among the best bards in the 20th era. He was an Anglo-Irish protestant, the group that had control over the every life aspect of Ireland for almost the whole of the seventeenth era. Associates of this group deliberated themselves to be the English menfolk but sired in Ireland. However, Yeats was a loyal affirmer of his Irish ethnicity, and in all his deeds, he had to respect it. Even after living in America for almost fourteen years, he still had a home back in Ireland, and most of his poems maintained an Irish culture, legends and heroes. Therefore, Yeats gained a significant praise for writing some of the most exemplary poetry in modern history
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” -William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is one of many men who have experienced the pains of life and gave them new voice on the world stage for the benefits of others but W.B. Yeats was not like any ordinary writer. On his shoulders was the responsibility to tell the history of an abused puppet plagued with war, suffering, and foreign meddling. Yeats is thought to be one of the most influential poets and playwrights of the 20th century. Analyzing his trail across history you will see a literary movement bursting with the revival of Irish culture.
Life experiences and personal ideologies create interest in the poetry of W.B. Yeats- “The Wild Swans at Coole” Life experiences, both positive and negative, deeply influence an individual’s perceptions and understanding of life and in turn are the deciding factor in what ideologies the individual accepts. William Butler Yeats was one of the most influential modern poets and was deeply influenced by his unfortunate life experiences and subsequently unorthodox personal ideologies which are especially obvious in “The Wild Swans at Coole”. His strong but ultimately futile endearment to Maud Gonne that lasted almost three decades played a large role both personally and professionally along with fascination with the occult and supernatural and his
3. “Modernist Poetry 2: W. B. Yeats”, lecture by Dr. Aaron Kelly, 20th April 2004, from the green booklet “Module B: The Critical Study of Texts: William Butler Yeats”.
His influence on Yeats’ writing is undeniable. Yeats began to write “in the way of [Sir Samuel] Ferguson and [James Clarence] Mangan” and evolve his nationalism and anti-English sentiment (O’Connor, 165). Yeats, like Ferguson, saw “literature in Irish was an essential part of the education of any Irishman and tried to make it so” (O’Connor, 150). He toured Ireland and established the National Literary Society. His greatest ambition was to unite Catholic Ireland and Protestant Ireland through national literature.
The figures in the first stanza create tension and portray the event. All definitions for the rhetorical figures mentioned in this essay are derived from Lanham's A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. Yeats opens with an example of brachylogia, brevity of speech. His elliptical fragment, "A sudden blow," recreates the stunning impact and tension of the assault. The poet uses alliteration in the form of consonance: the plosive "b" first found in "blow" subtly batters the ear throughout the quatrain--"beating," "bill," and "breast," which occurs twice; the initial "g" found in "great" echoes in "girl"; and an initial "h" repeats in "her," which occurs three times, "he," "holds," "helpless," and "his". Yeats ends the first line with "beating still," an example of anastrophe, a kind of hyperbaton, the unusual arrangement of words or clauses within a sentence, frequently for poetic effect. The figure not only creates tension through arrangement but also throug...
Two of Yeats’s poem ‘The Wild Swan at Coole’ and ‘Easter 1916’ which I’m going to refer as ‘Wild Swan’ and ‘Easter’ both poem reflect the aspect of time and is based on Yeats’s ex lover. These poems demonstrate that time shape meaning, and can influence different elements such as Psychoanalytic and New Historicism criticism which I’ll explain why later. An example is a man named Seamus.H who wrote that Yeats’s poems "dig for finds that end up being plants." Seamus’ view of poetry is particularly relevant with regard to the nature of Yeats' symbols, for if we "dig" into the rich complexity of Yeats' symbols we find many different layers of meaning. This establish me to believe that Yeats' symbols cannot be fully appreciated without understanding the rich tapestry of all...
...tember 1913, there were only a few people that made huge sacrifices for independence in their country while others had contradicted their efforts and only focused on themselves. It was seen as if the heroes died in vain. In Easter 1916, the reader is able to notice a change in the people’s views and see that they are now the ones who are fighting for Ireland’s independence in honor of their previous leaders. The change Yeats talks about is that the result of the 1916 rising and the execution of some of its leaders. In turn the country revolted into the War of Independence. The Free State resulted in dividing the country both geographically and passionately along with those who had accepted the Free State and those who didn’t.
Although, this poem can be seen as a poem showing impartialness rather than overall being dark and grim. This poem is a great example of Modernism being displayed by William Butler Yeats, because of its speakers unusual thought process. Also, even though William Butler Yeats had a great impact on Modernism, especially during his time, he still wrote in the Victorian style. Therefore, William Butler Yeats was a great poet, who greatly influenced the style of writing during his time, and the Modernistic style of writing after him.
This refrain enforces his disgust at the type of money hungry people that the Irish have become. In the third and fourth stanza, however, Yeats completely changes the tone of his poetry. He praises the romantics of Irish history, such as Rob...
Yeats, W.B. The Collection of Poems by W.B. Yeats: Definitive Edition, With the Author’s Final Revisions. New York: MacMillan, 1959
The life of William Butler Yeats began when he was born into an honestly odd family dynamic. He was born in 1865 in Dublin to a once influential family (Yeats 2: 206). His parents were both of bygone influential status. They were never a rich family, but did their best to get by. John Butler Yeats, William’s father, was trained as a lawyer, but had always wished to be an artist and therefore put all of his ambition into being a painter (Yeats 2: 206). The family struggled because of financial hardship, as mentioned before, but William Butler Yeats saw his father’s ambition to fulfill his dreams as inspiration. Many of William Butler Yeats poems reflect a tangible need for culture to take the time to realize their dreams instead of staying with the status quo. This quality was also impressed upon him by his Irish mother who was deeply involved in the mysticism of faeries and astrology (Yeats 2: 206). Between his father’s freethinking artistic ways, and his mothers strong Irish background William Butler Yeats early childhood experiences influenced his writing greatly. Man...
At many places Yeats tries to blend the natural with the supernatural to achieve some desired goals. Edward Said refers to the same fact when he says that Yeats used Irish ‘backwardness as a source for radically disturbing, disruptive return to spiritual ideals lost in an overdeveloped modern Europe’(Cult.and Imp. 274).As a freedom-loving human being, he felt disgusted with the social reality of his time. Injustice and exploitation at the hands of foreign colonial power presented a heart-rending scenario to his inner-self. As a politician he was well-aware about helplessness of his fellow Irish men. However, through his poetic potentialities he tried to raise the banner of resistance through various means. The world of fairies for him was not only limited to mythical interpretation,rather, he used it symbolically to highlight the picture of independent
Yeats and Eliot are two chief modernist poet of the English Language. Both were Nobel Laureates. Both were critics of Literature and Culture expressing similar disquietude with Western civilization. Both, prompted by the Russian revolution perhaps, or the violence and horror of the First World War, pictured a Europe that was ailing, that was literally falling apart, devoid of the ontological sense of rational purpose that fuelled post-Enlightenment Europe and America(1). All these similar experience makes their poetry more valuable to compare and to contrast since their thoughts were similar yet one called himself Classicist(Eliot) who wrote objectively and the other considered himself "the last Romantic" because of his subjective writing and his interest in mysticism and the spiritual. For better understanding of these two poets it is necessary to mention some facts and backgrounds on them which influenced them to incorporate similar (to some extent) historical motif in their poetry.