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William Butler Yeats
There is little explanation of why Yeats is so hungry for peace in his famous poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." Rather, Yeats spends most of the poem describing the pastoral beauty and idyllic...
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William Butler Yeats
Irish poet William Butler Yeats has been called the greatest poet of the twentieth century. His subject matter is compelling and frequently tackles dark aspects of human nature and history. The...
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William Butler Yeats
Yeats is one of my favorite poets! Does your assignment allow you to choose any poems? I am assuming you have to tailor your thesis statement to discuss these three works. I think you could...
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William Butler Yeats
Yeats' "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" represents modern Irish life (i.e., life in Ireland circa 1920) by illustrating the bondage Irish citizens had to endure living under the oppressive...
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William Butler Yeats
In Yeats's poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," the Irish pilot who narrates the poem expresses feelings of Irish nationalism. He says, "Those that I fight I do not hate / Those that I guard...
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William Butler Yeats
A) The following are some ideas on a comparison of “When You Are Old” (by William Butler Yeats) and “Do not go gentle into that good night” (by Dylan Thomas): 1. Both poems employ end...
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The Second Coming
Yeats published "The Second Coming" in 1920 as part of his larger collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer, which also included Easter, 1916," Yeats' contemplation on the results of the Easter...
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William Butler Yeats
The poem "The Cat and The Moon" was originally written by Yeats as part of a play, first produced in 1917. The first two quatrains of the poem open the play, the second two quatrains appear a short...
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William Butler Yeats
The Romantic tradition in poetry tended to associate love poetry with youth, both in the sense of the protagonists of love poems being young and of the readership also being relatively young....
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William Butler Yeats
The character sketch of Peter Gilligan from the poem “The Ballad of Father Gilligan” by William Butler Yeats includes the following: Father Peter Gilligan is elderly. He is always weary and is...
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William Butler Yeats
The fairies believe that their world is more alluring than the child's world because it spares him the loss that inevitably awaits. There is nothing conclusively proven about which world is better....
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William Butler Yeats
One of the connections that exists between the real world and the world of the fairies in Yeats's "Stolen Child" is the pain and suffering that makes leaving it quite inviting. The real world and...
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William Butler Yeats
"The Stolen Child" by Yeats is a narrative poem, infused with the sense of the otherworldly, that moves in a progression of introducing the setting, creating the action, furthering the action, and...
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William Butler Yeats
The Modernism literary movement was heavily influenced by 20th century atrocities, such as world wars I and II. These wars left the world "shell-shocked" and cynical and asking the question, what...
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William Butler Yeats
There are several literary devices employed in Yeats's poem, but one theme that he often employs is that of the journey of life. This journey is presented in spiral imagery that explores the human...
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William Butler Yeats
Yeats published "Down By The Salley Gardens," a poem based on an Irish folk song, in a collection called Crossways in 1890. Although some readers have tried to locate the "Salley" gardens, the...
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William Butler Yeats
As we are limited in space, below are a few ideas to help get you started.The symbolism of the fisherman referred to in William Butler Yeats's poem "The Fisherman" becomes evident in the first...
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William Butler Yeats
Yeats wrote Sailing to Byzantium when he was old and mature. The opening paragraph of the poem is very significant in describing the worldview and mindset of people during that time. Yeats says...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
For Yeats, this tranquil, natural part of his childhood remembrances of an innocent Ireland are a refuge, and in first stanza he is wishfully conjuring a peaceful life, perhaps a kind of...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
These two poems by William Butler Yeats are perfect examples of his early tributes to his native country, Ireland, in which he reminisces about his childhood memories and subtly laments the loss of...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The speaker in Butler's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (1892) is clearly in the midst of an urban environment as he thinks about Innisfree: While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements...
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William Butler Yeats
In order to compare and contrast William Butler Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (to be known as LII) and "The Wild Swans at Coole" (to be known as WSC) rhyme, meter, poetic devices, and meaning...
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William Butler Yeats
The title of "Adam's Curse" refers to the biblical account of Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden, which resulted in all of their human descendents being forced to do hard labor throughout their...
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William Butler Yeats
All poetry essentially uses symbols to encapsulate and condense universal truths into a concise observation. The entire Jungian approach to psychology/anthropology is based on a universal...
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William Butler Yeats
If the "dreamy" descriptor can be seen as being able to envision a dream or see a world that is not in the present, Yeats' "The Second Coming" is a poem where there is a sense of the "dreamy." The...
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William Butler Yeats
When scanning a poem for meter- keep in mind meter as related to poetry is different from musical meter. Read the poem out loud and see if- without placing too much thought into it- you notice...
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Sailing to Byzantium
This poem is so complex that several approaches can be taken all tending toward adding additional understanding of the meaning of the poem. In other words, the more Answers, the merrier! Your...
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William Butler Yeats
I think that William Butler Yeats is both a realistic and an idealistic poet who conveyed his ideas of history as well as his ideas of what the future portends for humankind to make his significant...
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William Butler Yeats
Yeats in his prime was a poet with an incredible control over words and symbols, and he has been described by some critics as a "realist-symbolist-Metaphysical poet." Consider, for example, the...
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William Butler Yeats
What defines the poetry of Yeats more than any other poet is his use of symbols to explore his chosen themes of aging and art and the impact of the Irish Civil War and World War I on life and...
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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats, a much read and loved Irish poet even today, is considered by many as one of the finest poets of the 20th century. His contributions to English poetical traditions are many,...
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The Second Coming
The challenge in the question is that there is not merely one thematic aspect to the poem. Yeats' poem is so intricate because it represents so many different themes within it. On one hand, there...
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The Second Coming
I would say that the weakening of Christian values is present throughout the first stanza of the poem. Yeats' construction of the world is one in which the unifying principles previously held are...
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William Butler Yeats
The particular appeal of the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats is the sense of freedom inherent in the poem through one withdrawing from society and living a life of...
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William Butler Yeats
The "old pensioner" has been changed by the passage of time. He may no longer be actively involved in "every company that talked of love or politics"; he no longer joins in the fights with weapons...
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William Butler Yeats
"An Acre of Grass" is a confessional-style poem, appearing in Yeats' last published collection, Last Poems. I would definitely not classify "An Acre of Grass" as a desired picture of old age; in...
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William Butler Yeats
*I had to edit down your original list of questions about the poem to a single question (per eNotes policy). YOU think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attention upon my old age;They...
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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
The last four lines of William Butler Yeats' poem, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," changes the point of view from very personal (as seen with the use of first person personal pronouns-like...
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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Yeats' line refers to the reason why the airman does what he does. In a time period where so many believed different reasons for war, Yeats undercuts all of them with this line. The Irish Airman...
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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats's "The Stolen Child" is a poem that combines Irish mythology, mystery and romanticism as it pertains to childhood, and in juxtaposition with the modern world. This being said,...
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William Butler Yeats
This play by Yeats is closely linked to his love of his Irish homeland and the various myths and legends that circulate there concerning faeries and a kind of faeryland where humans were tempted to...
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William Butler Yeats
"When You are Old" by William Butler Yeats is an exquisite poem, in part because of its meaning, but also because of the sound created by its perfect rhyme scheme. The scheme is ABBA, CDDC, EFFE....
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William Butler Yeats
Two major symbols appear here that are Yeats’ main stock in trade: first, memories of an earlier, more pristine Ireland, here represented by swans in pairs. But “Nine-and-fifty” says that...
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William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Ballad is a poem that tell us a story generally associated withthe old legents and folk tales. Here the poet w b yeats in his poem the Ballad of Father Gilligan tells us an old tale about Gods...
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William Butler Yeats
In "The Ballad Of Father Gilligan" by William Butler Yeats, the style of a "Symbolist" poet with his use of "allusive imagery and symbolic structures." In essence, Yeats wrote poems that suggested...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
william butler yeats was and irish poet and playwright. He was one of the foremost figures in 20th century literature. He has also served as an Irish Senator. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize...
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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats' "The Cradle Song," is a lovely poem, written with a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEF, in a total of twelve lines. (Every other line rhymes: so A represents one sound and that...
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William Butler Yeats
Ballad is a short narrative poem that tells the tale of a local battle or war or event and local heroic through rustic or unsophisticated or dialectal form of language. Ballad was originally...
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William Butler Yeats
I think this excellent poem presents us with a priest who is at the end of his tether and absolutely exhausted. It appears that the cause of his intense spritual and physical weariness is the fact...