W.B.Yeats as a Love Poet

Love always played an important role in W.B.Yeats’ poetry. It is due to the fact that love had a great impact on the poets mind. His love for Maud Gonne, Maud Gonne's marriage to Macbride, his marriage to George Hyde Lees and his realization of desolation madu ep his mine to write poetry concerning love. The theme of love appears with different twist and turns in his poems.
A lot of Yeats lyric poem delas with love. However, in his early love lyrics, love was vague. Fleeting emotion. It was his meeting with Maud Gonne at the age of twenty three, that transformed yeats into a great love poet. Henceforth Maud gonne was everywhere in his poetry. She was an Irish revolutionist whom yeats proposed many time bt she always refused.Yeats love for Maud Gonne thus helped him to achieve what others could not. Many poets have boasted that they will immortalize the beauty of the woman they love however, only few have succeeded in as yeats succeeded in immortalizing the classical beauty and majestic form of his beloved. His love for Maud Gonne can be seen in the way he immortalized her beauty and charm in his poem “No Second Troy”. The poet says: “with beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this”
Again, in his poem “A Prayer for My Daughter” he describes Maud Gonne as “the loveliest woman born”
Anothor love lyric of Yeats “When You are Old” shows clearly that his love for his beloved is pure. He says in the poem that he loves his beloved’s pilgrim soul, whereas the love of other people maybe related to the physical charm.He says: “ 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”
However, his immense love for Maud Gonne was about to receive a great shock since Maud Gonne