The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart
Good morning, Mrs Spooner and 9C.
I am before you today to show you how poems can relate to life and analyse how it is done. Today the poem I have chosen to analyse was written in 1899. This poem was written by William Butler Yeats as part of his larger book titled; the Wind among the Reeds. Yeats has written a very in-depth poem that is easily related to life experiences, mainly because it is about being imperfect, something all of us can relate to. My poem fits into the category of love and is appropriately titled-The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart.
ALL things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,
The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould,
Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart,
With the earth and the sky and the water, remade, like a casket of gold
For my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart
The subject matter of this poem is focused around Yeats’ greatest love, Maud Gonne and the renewing of the world for her. Yeats met her in 1889 and she had had well and truly captured his attention. In 1903 Maud Gonne married someone else, much to the disappointment of Yeats; however he persevered with their friendship until 1908 when it finally concluded; but not after Yeats had written countless poems about her. Roses can connote love and perfection but Yeats also used the rose to symbolise Maud Gonne. In the poem, The Lover Tells of The Rose in His Heart Yeats is describing how Maud is perfect and how Yeats would love to renew the world perfectly for her. When he is talking about these things one thinks about the world in 1899, it was the start of 3 wars; the Boer war, the Spanish/American war and the Philippine/American war and natural
I am before you today to show you how poems can relate to life and analyse how it is done. Today the poem I have chosen to analyse was written in 1899. This poem was written by William Butler Yeats as part of his larger book titled; the Wind among the Reeds. Yeats has written a very in-depth poem that is easily related to life experiences, mainly because it is about being imperfect, something all of us can relate to. My poem fits into the category of love and is appropriately titled-The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart.
ALL things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,
The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould,
Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart,
With the earth and the sky and the water, remade, like a casket of gold
For my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart
The subject matter of this poem is focused around Yeats’ greatest love, Maud Gonne and the renewing of the world for her. Yeats met her in 1889 and she had had well and truly captured his attention. In 1903 Maud Gonne married someone else, much to the disappointment of Yeats; however he persevered with their friendship until 1908 when it finally concluded; but not after Yeats had written countless poems about her. Roses can connote love and perfection but Yeats also used the rose to symbolise Maud Gonne. In the poem, The Lover Tells of The Rose in His Heart Yeats is describing how Maud is perfect and how Yeats would love to renew the world perfectly for her. When he is talking about these things one thinks about the world in 1899, it was the start of 3 wars; the Boer war, the Spanish/American war and the Philippine/American war and natural