Expected change and unrequited love show up as major themes in William Yeats ’ poem The Wild Swans at Coole. Yeats sets up the poem in the first stanza to give a general feeling of sadness by describing "The trees are in their autumn beauty" and "The woodland paths are dry" (1-2). Autumn represents a time when nature starts dying and the dying leaves scatter where Yeats is walking. The reader also gets a general feel of an aged surrounding when Yeats mentions "a still sky" (4). The stillness of
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William Butler Yeats‚ born in Ireland on June 13‚ 1865‚ was an unquestionably remarkable poet whose desperate belief in mysticism and theosophy inspired him to produce works which would establish his dominant influence in poetry during the twentieth-century. Driven by a desire to create a unique set of symbols and metaphors applicable to poetry as well as the human experience‚ Yeats’ poetry evolved to represent his views on spirituality and Man’s existentialist dilemmas. “Sailing to Byzantium”‚ a
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Women Characters in The Waste Land Thomas Stearns Eliot’s The Waste land presents a galaxy of characters. Some women characters include a priestess‚ a princess‚ a fortune teller‚ a lady of the upper class‚ a lower middle class girl‚ a typist girl as well as the girls of the river Thames. None of them is happy in the true sense. In the Epigraph we come across the Sybil at Cumae who was hung in a cage. Children threw stones at her and asked‚ “What do you want?” In answer‚ she said‚ ‘I want to die
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Stability versus Change and Metamorphosis in T.S. Eliot ’s The Waste Land. When one reads The Waste Land for the first time‚ it may be difficult to extract some clear meanings out of the poem. The common reader is used to expect some uniformity and wholeness‚ some kind of unity or continuity in one or various aspects in any piece of writing he or she comes across. Therefore‚ when one has to face a poem like this one‚ the sensation of puzzlement‚ confusion and powerlessness is unavoidable. Even
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Since the beginnings of the literature love has been one of the most important themes for the writers and accordingly for the readers. Not only did the poets impose themselves the immensely difficult task to describe the notion of love‚ but they also left the readers with the enjoyable but not easy thing that is the deciphering the meaning of their descriptions. It is how the American poet‚ prosaic and dramatist‚ Edward Estlin Cummings‚ behaved by giving people the interesting image of love in the
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Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission‚ having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem‚ I sit and look out. In this giant work‚ openness‚ freedom‚ and above all‚ individualism are all that concerned him. His aim was nothing less than to express some new poetical feelings and to initiate a poetic tradition in which difference should be recognized. Whitman is almost as blatant as this in his pacing of current experience because in the short poem “I Sit and Look Out
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Octavio Paz is Mexico’s greatest living poet. But let’s face it: that’s like saying William Carlos Williams was Paterson’s best writer. For Americans‚ a better way of indicating Paz’s importance will have to be found. Perhaps it would be more suggestive to say that in the universe of Latin American writing‚ Neruda’s poetry is solar: a lavish‚ Hispanic ful-mination--like a Tamayo watermelon--and Paz’s poetry lunar: a rarer‚ Gallic luminosity--like a Magritte moon--; or‚ to put it another way
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The poetry of William Butler Yeats deals with a variety of different themes from the political and historical to the magical and mystical. Whilst his patriotic poems are a call to arms for those like him who desired a return to the age of revolutionary heroes‚ it is Yeats’ poems that deal with myth‚ magic and symbolism that reveal the deeper side of his poetic imagination. This essay will deal with the related poems Sailing to Byzantium and its sequel of sorts Byzantium. Sailing to Byzantium is
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It is very rare that an author surpasses his time and continues to engage readers past his own century of creative prime‚ but along with the likes of Shakespeare and Dickens‚ William Butler Yeats stands among the few writers whose work has been engraved permanently onto the walls of English literature. It is through Yeats’ exploration of themes such as the passing of time‚ fragility of human life and the inevitability of death teemed with the exploration of the idea of destruction and its relevance
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T S Eliot’s poem ‘To the Indians who Died in Africa’ is an interesting Eliot piece. It is not often you read a poem by Eliot which refrains from striking the grand pose. He tended to invoke the giant issues of human soul every time he penned a poem‚ except of course‚ when he wrote those cat poems. But this is a puzzlingly small-aimed poem. A bit advise not grand wisdom‚ I guess. That this poem in imbued in the war and empire atmosphere is obvious. What he has to say to the Indians is funnily passive
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