"William Butler Yeats." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2017. . In this article, the authors describe William Butler’s life and legacy. It tells of his nationality and how it impacted him not only as a person but as a better writer. He was highly spoken about by W.H. Auden, sparking his career as a writer. The article then starts to talk about his first publication in the Dublin University Review, it gave him some publicity and started his writing career as a professional. It showed how important occultism was to him. It goes on into telling for about his family and the women he fell in love with. The woman of his life gave him inspiration to many of his most popular works …show more content…
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017. . In this poem Yeats’s is describing an actual island on the coast of Ireland. It is a very secluded island that he longs for. He deeply wants for sedentary time in nature instead of being in the busy city he is currently in. The poem shows true transcendentalism. This poem relates to Yeats’s own life immensely. William grew up as a city boy and lived mostly in London as a boy. In the summers of his childhood he would life with his mother, in her hometown of Sligo which was a completely rural area. He is known for writing about Irish independence, which is proposed in this poem. William was a poet who would compare and contrast what he wants. It shows that he wants to live in the country but he might never get there and it might only be obtained his dreams.
The writer is feeling as he is trapped and is going at such a fast rate in the city ("The Lake Isle of Innisfree").
He feels as if the city will calm him down and make him be at peace ("The Lake Isle of Innisfree").
“Veils of the morning” is a metaphor for saying fog and mist brings peace, and can only be gone when the sun comes and lifts the veils ("The Lake Isle of …show more content…
Anarchy has risen because of WWI ("A Short Analysis of Yeats's 'The Second Coming'").
Yeats’s metaphor about the widening gyre means that history will continue to repeat itself, over and over ("A Short Analysis of Yeats's 'The Second Coming'"). Spiritus Mundi, stated in this poem shows Yeats’s beliefs through this poem ("A Short Analysis of Yeats's 'The Second Coming'").
There is a homophone when it says reel shadows, but shadows are not real so it is an allusion of the deserts image ("A Short Analysis of Yeats's 'The Second Coming'").
Yeats’s poetry almost always ends in a question for the reader ("A Short Analysis of Yeats's 'The Second Coming'").
William’s questioning allows the readers to come up with their own interpretation of the poem, it’s not a straightforward answer like lots of other poetry. This makes his work so popular and controversial ("A Short Analysis of Yeats's 'The Second