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William Butler Yeats Poems

John Michael Gonzales IV-Amiable Ms. Carillo

I. Authors Background{
William Butler Yeats (June 1865 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929). Yeats was born and educated in Dublin but spent his childhood in County Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889 and those slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Pre-Raphaelite poets. From 1900, Yeats' poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life. As one of the founders of the Irish Literary Revival, along with J. M. Synge (1871-1909) [whom he met in 1896], Sean OCasey (1880-1964), and Padraig (Padraic) Colum (1881-1972) Yeats works draw heavily on Irish mythology and history. He never fully embraced his Protestant past nor joined the majority of Irelands Roman Catholics but he devoted much of his life to study in myriad other subjects including theosophy, mysticism, spiritualism, and the Kabbalah. At a young age he was reading Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, John Donne and the works of William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley, recommended by his father and inspiration for his own creativity, but fellow Irish poets Standish James OGrady (1846-1928) and Sir William Ferguson (1818-1886) were perhaps the most influential. A devoted patriot, Yeats found his voice to speak out against the harsh Nationalist policies of the time. His early dramatic works convey his respect for Irish legend and fascination with the occult, while his later plays take on a more poetical and experimental aspect: Japanese Noh plays and modernism being major influences. While his works explore the greater themes of life in contrast to art, and finding beauty in the mundane, he also produced many works of an intimate quality especially in his later years as father and aging man of letters. We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetryAnima Hominis, Essays (1924). Yeats spent most of his life between Sligo, Dublin, and London, but his profound influence to future poets and playwrights and theatre, music and film can be seen the world over.

Literary Works by W.B Yeats

  

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The Celtic Twilight

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Four Years

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The Countess Cathleen The Hour Glass The Land Of Heart's Desire

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Rosa Alchemica Stories of Red Hanrahan Synge And The Ireland Of His Time Out of the Rose The Heart of the Spring The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows The Old Men of the Twilight Where There is Nothing, There is God Of Costello the Proud

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A Prayer For My Daughter Aedh Wishes For The Clothes Of Heaven Against Unworthy Praise Baile And Aillinn Broken Dreams Easter, 1916 He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven Her Praise In the Seven Woods King And No King Lapis Lazuli

Leda And The Swan No Second Troy O Do Not Love Too Long Politics Sailing to Byzantium Swift's Epitaph The Arrow The Black Tower The Crucifixion Of The Outcast The Dolls The Everlasting Voices The Fish The Harp of Aengus The Host Of The Air The Hosting Of The Sidhe The Lake Isle Of Innisfree The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart The Mask The Moods The Old Age Of Queen Maeve The Rose Tree The Second Coming The Secret Rose The Seven Sages The Shadowy Waters The Song of the Happy Shepherd The Stolen Child The Three Beggars The Tower The Two Trees The Wheel The Wild old wicked Man The Wild Swans At Coole The Wisdom Of The King To A Young Beauty To A Young Girl To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time Towards Break Of Day What Was Lost When You Are Old

Poems{

A Prayer for my Daughter

When you are Old

The lake Isle of Innisfree

Leda and the Swan

The Countess Cathleen in Paradise

A Prayer for my Daughter

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle But Gregory's wood and one bare hill Whereby the haystack- and roof-levelling wind, Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed; And for an hour I have walked and prayed Because of the great gloom that is in my mind. I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower, And under the arches of the bridge, and scream In the elms above the flooded stream; Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum,

Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. Helen being chosen found life flat and dull And later had much trouble from a fool, While that great Queen, that rose out of the spray, Being fatherless could have her way Yet chose a bandy-leggd smith for man. It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat Whereby the Horn of Plenty is undone. In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned; Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned By those that are not entirely beautiful; Yet many, that have played the fool For beauty's very self, has charm made wise, And many a poor man that has roved, Loved and thought himself beloved,

O may she live like some green laurel Rooted in one dear perpetual place. My mind, because the minds that I have loved, The sort of beauty that I have approved, Prosper but little, has dried up of late, Yet knows that to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf. An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind? Considering that, all hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will; She can, though every face should scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still. And may her bridegroom bring her to a house Where all's accustomed, ceremonious; For arrogance and hatred are the wares Peddled in the thoroughfares. How but in custom and in ceremony Are innocence and beauty born? Ceremony's a name for the rich horn, And custom for the spreading laurel tree.

From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes. May she become a flourishing hidden tree That all her thoughts may like the linnet be, And have no business but dispensing round Their magnanimities of sound, Nor but in merriment begin a chase, Nor but in merriment a quarrel.

A. Vocobulary Words
y y y y y Haystack - a large pile of hay, especially one that is built in the open. Magnanimity - great generosity or noble-spiritedness, a generous or noble-spirited act. Frenzied wildly excited or out of control, uncontrolled activity, agitation, or emotion. Linnet - songbird of the finch family, the male of which has a red breast and forehead. Native to: Europe, Africa, Asia. Latin name: Carduelis cannabina. Merriment - fun and enjoyment marked by noise and laughter.

B. Images / Symbolism
y STORM - represents outside forces which threaten her daughters safety.

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CRADLEHOOD - represents her daughters innocence and infancy. Helen, Queen a beautiful woman or Maud Gonne (his wife) HEARTS love. DRIED - for his mind, to explain how the bad ideas are rooted in his mind.

C. Figures of speech
y y Metaphor - every face should scowl, bellows burst, hot air, custom is used for the spreading laurel tree, linnet is used for good faith, Personification - Sea-wind scream, future years dancing, frenzied drum, angry wind, the storm is howling, strangers eye distraught, glad kindness cannot take his eyes, charm made wise. Simile - "all her thoughts may like the linnet be", "may she live like some green laurel" Onomatopoeia - howling, scream, spray, choke, scowl, howl

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D. Interpretation of 1st stanza

The poem begins by describing a "storm" which is "howling, and his new-born daughter, sleeping "half hid" in her cradle, thus protected somewhat from the storm. The storm, which describes the Irish War of Independence, overshadows the birth of Yeats's daughter and creates the political frame that sets the text into historical context.

E. Interpretation as a Whole
The poem is basically centred around his thoughts on what his daughter will be like as she grows up. Its is about William Butler Yeats ideas, and his anxiety about his baby daughter's future and life. He wants his daughter to become a woman who is virtuous, wise. Yeats wants his daughter to inherit the traits and a character that would allow her to lead a complete and fulfilling life in the world.

E. Relevance of the Poem in your Life

For me, its relevance would be about a role of an anxious father brooding over his young daughter's future. Its one the most important thing that a father could do for his son/daughter to plan and mold his life for a better living, because most of the father of todays time is not just that caring about them. Sometimes they just neglect their responsibility towards their little Angels

When you are Old

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars

A. Vocabulary Words
y y y y y Pilgrim - somebody who goes on a journey to a holy place for religious reasons. Murmur - a continuous low sound, often one that seems to be coming from some distance away, a complaint made in a discreet or secretive way. Amid within or among, surrounded by things or people, used to indicate the circumstances or events around or accompanying something. Sorrow - grief, a feeling of deep sadness caused by a loss or misfortune. Soul - the complex of human attributes that manifests as consciousness, thought, feeling, and will, regarded as distinct from the physical body.

B. Images / Symbolism
y y y y y OLD AND GREY - decaying body, physical appearance LOVE FLED - disappointment, unsuccessful for courting the girl PILGRIM SOUL true self, holy, admirable attitudes SORROWS OF CHANGING FACE disgrace for the changing face because of being old HID HIS FACE turning away from others, shy because of losing her charm and beauty.

C. Figures of speech
y y y Metaphor - Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep Personification - how Love fled Metonymy - man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And hid his face amid a crowd of stars, paced upon the mountains overhead

D. Interpretation of 1st stanza

The first stanza states that he tells us that old age, eyes lose their light and there are so many destructions that we have in our body. There are things that stop us from engaging into different

activities because of losing our youth or adulthood. When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire' (1-2) depicts the woman in her age, needing to nap more frequently. He speaks of a book (l.2) and the 'soft look' of her eyes (3-4). This book signifies a photo album that contains pictures of her as young adult.

E. Interpretation as a Whole
As a whole the poem is all about the love of Yeats to a girl. He make the girl realize that her face would face an lose its charm (stated in the 2nd stanza), that would end up that nobody would love him. The poem states the love of Yeats to the girl not just by its beauty but specially who the girl really are But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, but the girl; refused Yeats love for her Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled

E. Relevance of the Poem in your Life

For me, its relevance would be about the pure love that a man could give to his/her love. Writing this kind of this kind of poem signifies how powerful love could be specially thinking about the future of the two of you. Sometimes our love is not yet that good enough to satisfy girls. Maybe, there are times that they are not really for us because we are destined to love somebody else. A girl that will also give the love that we offer to them. Yeats wrote this poem for Maude Gonne, an actress that Yeats loves desperately.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnights all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnets wings I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep hearts core.

A. Vocobulary Words
y y y y y Linnet - songbird of the finch family, the male of which has a red breast and forehead. Native to: Europe, Africa, Asia. Latin name: Carduelis cannabina. Wattle - stakes or poles interwoven with branches and twigs, used for walls, fences, and roofs Glimmer - to emit a dim glow, a faint or intermittent light Cabin - a small simple house, especially one made of wood in forest or mountain areas Pavement - the layered structure that forms the surface of a path, road, highway, or aircraft runway

B. Images / Symbolism
y y y y y INNISFREE yearning of a place of escape CABIN - a place to stay NINE BEAN ROWS - a garden PEACE - being free from the urbanized side of the world LINNETS WINGS - magical beauty, nature

C. Figures of speech
y y y y Metaphor - hive for the honeybee, hear it in the deep hearts core Hyperbaton - "And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made" Onomatopoeia - cricket sings Metonymy - And live alone in the bee-loud glade

D. Interpretation of 1st stanza

The first stanza states that the writer focuses on Innisfree as a place of escape. He is planning of making a cabin made of woods specifically made from branches or twigs; its literally stated that he would like to have a garden which has a bee hive. Living in nature and escape from the urban area is what given emphasis on the 1st stanza

E. Interpretation as a Whole
The poem entitled The lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B Yeats, in this poem he yearns to return to the island of Innisfree because of the peace and quiet it affords. He can escape the noise of the city and be lulled by the "lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore." On this small island, he can return to nature by growing beans and having bee hives, by enjoying the "purple glow" of noon, the sounds of birds' wings, and, of course, the bees. He can even build a cabin and stay on the island as much as he wanted.

E. Relevance of the Poem in your Life

For me, its relevance would be about having the peace within ourselves, like Yeats, we have to escape from this world of reality and go into a magical place which will give us the contentment of having relaxation in life. The nature is a perfect place where we can sat down and feel the presence of natural beauty, with other living creatures. This poem made me realize that there are times that we need to go in a place where I can be isolated, without any destruction from the others and also away from the urban area full of pollutions.

Leda and the Swan

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,

He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in that white rush, But feel the strange heart beating where it lies? A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power? Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? A. Vocobulary Words
y y y y y Staggering - amazing, with the effect of shocking or astounding people Nape - back or neck, the back part of the neck Vague - not explicit or distinctly seen, unclear or not clearly felt and understood Shudder - shiver violently, to shake or tremble uncontrollably from a reaction such as cold, fear, or disgust Agamemnon - Greek leader at Troy, in Greek mythology, the commander of the Greek army in the Trojan War. When Agamemnon returned from the war, he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His death was later avenged by his son Orestes.

B. Images / Symbolism
y y y y y GREAT WINGS - a powerful strength by someone, a superior STAGGERING GIRL unexpected, surprised SWAN mystery and passion, this swan came down to earth from Mount Olympus with a mission. The the swan is really the Greek God Zeus in disguise SEX - a depiction of a violent sexual encounter between a woman and a bird BEATING - brutality and harshness of the swans swift attack

C. Figures of speech
y y y y Metonymy Personification Hyperbole Metaphor -

D. Interpretation of 1st stanza

The first stanza states that the beginning of the poem takes us by surprise, as Leda is surprised by the ambush of the bird. It also describes Leda's assault, Zeus dominating Leda, rendering her helpless. In reality, few things would be more strange or shocking. Leda was surprised. In line 4, the swan is called "he" for the first time, (Yeats expects that his readers are familiar with the myth of Leda and the swan and know that "he" means Zeus.

E. Interpretation as a Whole
The poem entitled Leda and the Swan by W.B Yeats, is a depiction about the rape of Leda with the Greek God Zeus. Its a description on how the rape was happened in that time. As I read the poem, in the 3rd sentence, it is literally stating that theres a trouble The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. I figured out that the rape happened during the Trojan War And Agamemnon dead, he is a Greek army during the Trojan War.

E. Relevance of the Poem in your Life

For me, its relevance would be about harsh violence, forcing to do such things without the permission and against the will of others; also, allusions to mystical ideas about the universe, the relationship of human and divine. This poem gives a crucial idea about the history of the world, although sometimes we might say that its just a mere fact, its because it shows supernatural happening that we dont believe in because it doesnt exist anymore in todays time.

The Countess Cathleen in Paradise

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

All the heavy days are over; Leave the body's coloured pride

Underneath the grass and clover, With the feet laid side by side. Bathed in flaming founts of duty She'll not ask a haughty dress; Carry all that mournful beauty To the scented oaken press. Did the kiss of Mother Mary Put that music in her face? Yet she goes with footstep wary, Full of earth's old timid grace. 'Mong the feet of angels seven What a dancer glimmering! All the heavens bow down to Heaven, Flame to flame and wing to wing.

A. Vocobulary Words
y y y y y Wary cautious, cautious and alert for problems, showing watchfulness or suspicion Fount source of something, a fountain or source of water Haughty condescending, behaving in a superior, condescending, or arrogant way Timid unassertive, demonstrating a lack of courage or self-assurance Glimmer - to emit a dim glow, a faint or intermittent light

B. Images / Symbolism
y y y y y HEAVY DAYS - a life full of worries where diff. problems can be encountered GRASS AND CLOVER - a place, magical and relaxing FLAMING FOUNTS OF DUTY - things needed or considered to be done, a mission or responsibility that cannot be easily done. KISS OF MOTHER MARY - great contentment, happiness FEET OF ANGELS - dancing with joy

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y y y y Metaphor Personification Metonymy Hyperbole -

D. Interpretation of 1st stanza

The first stanza states that Cathleen is free from the harsh side of the world where he lived before. The stanza literally stated that Cathleen is living in a world with no suffering All the heavy days are over. It also states the place where Cathleen was, in a beautiful and peaceful place, which I can say a heaven for her and a paradise to live in relaxation. Underneath the grass and clover, with the feet laid side by side.

E. Interpretation as a Whole
The poem entitled Leda and the Swan by W.B Yeats, describes the Countess Cathleen after her death. The Countess' legendary donation of her worldly possessions takes on an otherworldly aspect in this poem. It suggests that Cathleen, in giving over her body, lets go of her heavy burden. She dances lightly and wisely in the heavens, celebrating her sacrifice and her role in the grand order of the universe.

E. Relevance of the Poem in your Life

For me, its relevance would be about the value of giving hope to others, as what I have searched about this poem, theres also a play about Countess Cathleen. Mythic time in which Ireland is suffering from famine and disease caused by demons. She sell her soul to the devil just to give food for the poor Irish people, she sell all of her possessions to maintain the distribution of foods for the poor. I love this poem and it also set my mind to be a good son of GOD. To share to others what I have in this world, what can I say a heroic and legendary thing that I have done.