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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 1865 – 1939
INTRODUCTION
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer. ... Yeats later confronted reality with a new candour and disenchantment but he always focused his poems on Ireland, its history, folklore and contemporary public life. Reincarnation, mythology, mediums, the supernatural and Oriental mysticism fascinated Yeats throughout his life and he formed an occult order called Daemon est Deus Inversus (the Devil is God Inverted). ... Yeats formed the Irish Literary Society and then the National Literary Society around the turn of the century. ...
Yeats married Georgie Hyde-Lee in 1917. ... Yeats was also obsessed with Gonne’s daughter, Iselut, who had also refused his marriage proposal. In his latter years, Yeats founded the Irish Academy of Letters and was involved with the semi-fascist Blue shirts in Dublin. ... Whilst a senator, Yeats supported legislation that resulted in the imprisonment without trial of Sean MacBride for his involvement in Republican interests.
AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN
The poem has eight stanzas each of eight lines and with a regular rhyme format. ... A powerful mythical feeling is apparent in the second stanza with phrases such as ‘I dream of a Ledaean body’ and ‘to alter Plato’s parable’ validating Yeats’ interest in mythology yet also giving the stanza an almost wistful tone (into a sphere from youthful sympathy). The third stanza has an apprehensive, curious feel to it where Yeats’ words ponder children and their power (thereupon my heart is driven wild: she stands before me as a living child. ... In the second to last stanza, there is a quiet assurance that the poet is in a world in which he is comfortable because he does not question but rather states facts (And that all heavenly glory symbolise -). ... )
It appears that Yeats wrote Among School Children from his own perspective and it is in the present tense, intermingled with the third person but becoming second person in the final stanza. ... ), which is Yeats’ age when he wrote Among School Children. ...
The imagery of the poem is mostly related to children. ... Several old men are mentioned (Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras); their thoughts and ideas are considered but then discarded like ‘old clothes upon old sticks’ and Yeats wonders if old age and death are all we have to look forward to in life.
Approximate Word count = 1862
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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