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W.B.Yeats as a Poet
William Butler Yeats was the greatest poet in the history of Ireland and probably the greatest poet to write in English during the twentieth century. Yeats’s themes, images, symbols, metaphors, and poetic sensibilities encompass the range of his personal experience, as well as his nations experience during one of its most troubled times. Yeatss great poetic project was to represent his own life--his thoughts, feelings, speculations, conclusions, dreams--into poetry: to render all of himself into art, but not in a merely confessional or autobiographical manner; he was not interested in the common-place. To contemporary readers, Yeats can seem baffling; he was opposed to the age of science, progress, democracy, modernization, and his occultist and mythological answers to those problems can seem horribly anachronistic for a poet who died barely sixty years ago. ...
Much of Yeats’s early poetry seems to be written in the style of Romanticism. ... Yeats may have entered the realm of romanticism in part due to Maud Gonne. In 1889 Yeats met his great love, Maud Gonne, an actress and Irish revolutionary who became a major landmark in the poets life and imagination. A good example of Yeats’s early manner…reveals the dreamy-eyed sensitive romantic in the poem, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (Unterecker 73).
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree," published in 1893, is one of Yeats’s first great poems. Yeats paints a tranquil picture throughout most of the poem as a desire to escape into a dream world. The simple imagery of the quiet life Yeats longs to lead is detailed and lulls the reader into his idyllic fantasy.
Approximate Word count = 1374
Approximate Pages = 5.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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