William B Yeats (1865-1939) From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) Men improve with the Years I am worn out with dreams; A weather-worn‚ marble triton Among the streams; And all day long I look Upon this lady’s beauty As though I had found in book A pictured beauty‚ Pleased to have filled the eyes Or the discerning ears‚ Delighted to be but wise‚ For men improve with the years; And yet and yet Is this my dream‚ or the truth? O would that we had met When I had my burning youth; But
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Broken Dreams was published in 1917 after Yeats’ last proposal to Maude Gonne‚ he was 52 years old when it was published. Around the time this poem was published‚ women couldn’t vote‚ there were no jobs for women‚ women were less equal and the suffragette movement was going on. Yeats in the poem is talking about Maude‚ she was a woman he loved she didn’t love him back. The poem is quite aloof and cool‚ it’s almost like he’s giving a lecture. Yeats mentions the women’s flaws in every stanza‚ he
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This song comes to my mind while reading this poem‚ “Never Give All The Heart” by William Butler Yeats. The game of love has been played for many generations by both sexes. The question is who plays the game better? Nobody wants to be played but the male species tend to play the game so much better of not giving all of their heart away! It’s hard not to be played when you have an emotional soul. Man has it down to a science of playing with women’s hearts! They know how to give just enough to
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The title of the poem ‘Whatif’ refers to the fears and paranoia questions we have at night‚ as we are more vulnerable. The poet combines the words ‘what’ and ‘if’ in a childlike manner. The main theme of the poem is ‘fears of a child’. In almost every line the poet adds a new fear. He mentions numerous childish fears like the feel of failing at school‚ being bullied‚ growing green chest hair and teeth not growing straight. He also mentions fears that a human at any age can relate to such as the fear
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Both poems display very rich description from the start and continue this full description throughout the poem giving you a very clear image of the sights‚ sounds and smells described. The very first lines of each poem show this rich flavour and very much give you the idea that the poems are about nature. The poems are about forces of nature and they both build the effect of these forces using description. Death of a Naturalist uses the description to give the feeling that the author is control of
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The Golden Cat is a short poem written by Oliver Herford. It is about the sun‚ a giant golden cat‚ and how it makes everything around us better. The Cat in the Moon‚ on the other hand‚ was written by W. B. Yeats. It is about the moon and talks about how the moon changes over time. Both poems use imagery to get their points across. One similarity between the two poems is the use of imagery. In The Golden Cat‚ a cat is used to portray the sun. In the Cat in the Moon‚ a cat is used to portray
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As a modern poem”The Wasteland” “Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the ‘movement‚’ of our modern experiment‚ since 1900‚” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from Eliot’s personal travails. Born in St. Louis‚ Eliot had studied at Harvard‚ the Sorbonne‚ and Oxford before moving to London‚ where he completed his doctoral dissertation
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Discuss ways in which Yeats presents memories in ‘Broken Dreams’ Main 3 themes= memory-old growing memory- associated with negetivity memory-beautiful- Maud Maud Gonne= pinnacle of his memory ‘you are more beautiful than anyone’ ‘And yet your body had a flaw / Your small hands were not beautiful’ – her flaw were what separated her from the angelic persona of an angel but it was this very flaw that made her perfect- hence the reason she was such an overpowering part of his memory- unforgettable.
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attitude that he does like the "Sonnet’s scanty plot of ground." Keats use of an unidentifiable form further extends his attitude that even while being limited the poet can still let the "Muse be free." Other contrasts between the poets and their poems is the use of allusions; Keats alludes to Andromeda‚ a Greek myth‚ and Wordsworth does not use allusions‚ however he does give examples that the reader can relate to. Both Keats and Wordsworth use elaborate diction to convey the constraint and weight
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Compare the presentation of change in Yeats’ ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ and ‘The Second Coming’ Both of Yeats’ poems express his opinions and viewpoint of the changes in society and people’s beliefs. Through the poem ‘The Second Coming’ Yeats highlights his belief that the twentieth century had seen the beginning of a new darker era‚ full of violence and struggles for independence and the effects of the Great War. The second poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ expresses Yeats’ observations of old age and the comforting
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