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Where can i find ''Essay in Symbolism'' text by Yeats ?

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:07:45 PST

Where can i find ''Essay in Symbolism'' text by Yeats ?

The messages of William Butler's poems

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:09:33 PST

what is the message of the poem "September 1916"?

what is the message of the poem "Easter, 1916"?

what is the message of the poem "To Ireland in the Coming Times"?

what is the message of the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"?

and lastly, what is the common message and/or connection between these four poems?

What type of Celtic imagery did Yeats use in his poetry?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:42:56 PST

What type of Celtic imagery did Yeats use in his poetry?

information on his poem the secret rose

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:44:23 PST

information on his poem the secret rose

William Butler Yeats discuss about the three labors that are parallel to...

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:58:41 PST

William Butler Yeats discuss about the three labors that are parallel to each other in Adams Curse. Do you agree with Yeats?

The narrator of "The Gyres" is detachedly observing a world in flames,...

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:03:22 PST

The narrator of "The Gyres" is detachedly observing a world in flames, having destroyed its "ancient lineaments," succumbing to war and destruction while he (the narrator) asks himself if it really even matters. While he used to wish for the return of the old world, he seems now to understand that eventually it will return anyway in some form or other, and the "numb nightmare ride on top" will be over. Specifically, Yeats was referring to...

Yeats' "The Spur" belongs to his "Last Poems" (1938). The quatrain...

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:10:18 PST

Yeats' "The Spur" belongs to his "Last Poems" (1938). The quatrain expresses pithily the pathetic state of his old age. He poses a rhetoric question implying that all that remains of him in his old age are lust and rage to spur him on during his last few years on this earth. 'Lust' and 'rage' are excusable in a youth, but sadly inappropriate in an old man - "horrible." But Yeats remarks that these are the only two things remaining with him...

"An Acre of Grass" is from Yeats' "Last Poems" (1939). The poem...

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:00:39 PST

"An Acre of Grass" is from Yeats' "Last Poems" (1939). The poem graphically describes the plight of the old and aged W.B.Yeats. He realises that he has come to the end of his life and reveals to us the loneliness and joylessness of his sad situation "at life's end." He first bemoans his weakened and restricted physical state. He is confined to "an acre of grass" which serves as an exercise ground. He has only a few books and pictures to look...

What is Yeats's poem, "An Acre of Grass" about?

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:40:54 PST

What is Yeats's poem, "An Acre of Grass" about?

What is Yeats's "The Spur" about?

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:39:37 PST

What is Yeats's "The Spur" about?

What is Yeats's poem, "The Gyres" about?

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:37:30 PST

What is Yeats's poem, "The Gyres" about?

This poem "A Woman Homer Sung" is from Yeats' "The Green Helmet and...

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:18:25 PST

This poem "A Woman Homer Sung" is from Yeats' "The Green Helmet and other Poems" (1910). In this poem Yeats (1865-1939} exalts Maud Gonne his lover into Helen of Troy, the woman "Homer sung" about in his epic the "Iliad." For Yeats Maud Gonne had the effect of making art and life seem unreal: "For she had fiery bloodWhen I was young,And trod so sweetly proudAs 'twere upon a cloud,A woman Homer sung,That life and letters seemBut an heroic...

The poem “The Mask,” by William Butler Yeats comes from his...

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:13:04 PST

The poem “The Mask,” by William Butler Yeats comes from his collection of poems called "The Green Helmet and other Poems." "The Mask" is about a conversation between a woman and a man. At the beginning of the poem he asks the woman to remove her mask so that he can decide if she is sincere or just a fake. Her reply is that he is so taken by the mask that she doesn’t want to risk him seeing her. She then asks him if it really...

What is the meaning of W.B.Yeats's "The Mask?"

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:59:07 PST

What is the meaning of W.B.Yeats's "The Mask?"

What is W.B.Yeats's poem, "A Woman Homer Sung" about?

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:57:27 PST

What is W.B.Yeats's poem, "A Woman Homer Sung" about?

What W.B.Yeats's 'The Travail of Passion' poem about?

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:54:06 PST

What W.B.Yeats's 'The Travail of Passion' poem about?

Any specific examples of celtic - or other - myths and identity in the...

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:51:41 PST

Any specific examples of celtic - or other - myths and identity in the poetry of W.B.Yeats?

The speaker in the poem "The Second Coming" can truly wind up to be...

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:31:13 PST

The speaker in the poem "The Second Coming" can truly wind up to be anyone who is desperately seeking a vision of unity, good, and truth to envelop the world after the First World War. There seems to be an almost pleading tone that implores the heavens themselves for the reestablishment of a moral order or structure to the world, as "the falcon cannot hear the falconer." If we examine the first stanza, of which lines 6-9, are included, we...

What are the techniques used by w b yeats in his Irish poetry?

Fri, 8 May 2009 12:39:22 PST

What are the techniques used by w b yeats in his Irish poetry?

This is a very broad question, really too broad for an enotes answer....

Thu, 7 May 2009 01:30:36 PST

This is a very broad question, really too broad for an enotes answer. Yeats wrote hundreds of poems in the course of a very long working life and his methods and techniques varied not just as he developed as a poet but also in relation to the subjects he wrote about. If you take a poem like 'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death', you will find very simple language, regular rhyme and rhythm, a simple four-stanza structure and a calm, balanced...