Analysis Of The Lake Isle Of Innisfree

The poem has ten stanzas, with four lines in each stanza, and it consists of an alternate rhyme scheme (ABAB), which is shown with “love/dove”, “another/mother” etc... The usage of this scheme gives it a more structured style, in comparison to free verse. This rigid pattern ties in nicely with the themes throughout the

Romantic influences paint a calm and peaceful portrait of Ireland through a tranquil tone. The mood is pleasant in the “nod of the head” and “polite meaningless words” as the reader deduces a positive outlook on society. It explicitly contrasts the repetition of “a terrible beauty is born” when reflecting on the violence in Ireland, shaping a personal response influenced by his perception of a struggle diminishing the essence of a pleasant aforementioned society. The stone to the “troubled living stream” emphasises Yeats’ support for the movement by placing

William Butler Yeats is one of the most esteemed poets in 20th century literature and is well known for his Irish poetry. While Yeats was born in Ireland, he spent most of his adolescent years in London with his family. It wasn’t until he was a teenager that he later moved back to Ireland. He attended the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and joined the Theosophical Society soon after moving back. He was surrounded by Irish influences most of his life, but it was his commitment to those influences and his heritage that truly affected his poetry. William Butler Yeats’s poetry exemplifies how an author’s Irish identity can help create and influence his work.

The poems, "The Wild Swans at Coole" and "The Great Scarf of Birds," unconsciously play off one another. Yeats and Updike paint similar pictures about similar topics. Although these poems consist of similar subjects, the authors' diction and details are at completely different ends of the poetry spectrum.

In the first stanza Yeats expresses his conflicting loathing and admiration for modernity through the juxtaposition of “vivid faces” and “grey houses”. This represents the possibilities that modernity can bring; the revitalising of the community or the destruction of tradition and age old energy already lost by the modifications in the city. The repetition of the phrase “A terrible beauty is born” in the first and fourth stanzas articulate this inner turmoil revolving around modernity. This oxymoronic declaration is emphasised throughout the text by Yeats’ confusion towards the rebellion and its necessity. The fourth stanza embodies this conflict, removing the previously represented idea that life in pre-rebellion Ireland was a “casual comedy”, alluding to an Elizabethan play where the characters were content. By asking the rhetoric questions “was it needless death” and “O when may [British rule] suffice?” Yeats parallels the unresolved contradiction of “terrible beauty”. However, this sensitive treatment of conflict allows the retainment of ambiguity and can be related to any change within life, hence allowing audiences to superimpose their own beliefs and ideas into the poem. Yeats continues to explore his aversion towards modernism in The Second Coming with the appointment of a new “gyre” standing as the symbol for a new age. The fear of

As years pass further away from childish thoughts, adults are allowed to reflect on their youth, while the youth dutifully study the already matured. This is exemplified in the writings of E. B. White and W. B. Yeats, and the insight gained upon reading them. In Yeats’s essay, “Reveries over Childhood and Youth”, he recounts of how his grandfather was a feared man deserving of admiration. “Once More to the Lake” is a recollection of White’s experience and emotions pertaining to his childhood summers spent at the lake. In both these essays, Yeats and White show that with age comes wisdom and respect, but it does not inherently entail contentment or satisfaction.

This poem is also about Art, and the Irish people's response to it. It is structured around the contrast between the Yeats' dream to write for the Irish people, and the reality.

Young Yeats spent much of his childhood in Sligo, Ireland. It was in Sligo where his earliest visions began to form. Through the Pollexfen’s, William was able to experience life on the water, as his grandfather owned a fleet of ships and the Sligo Steam Navigation Company. As the grandson of this sea merchant, the sailors onboard the fleets, as well as the servants back at home, would all treat young William like royalty. The Pollexfen’s world was complete with yachts and summer homes. Despite separation from his father for much of his youth, William was without want. He was free to wander about to discover the beauties, and explore the myths and legends of this enchanted place. William would miss Sligo immensely when this family would move

In the poem, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" there was a few keywords that set the tone for the poem such as alone and low sounds. It gave imagery that whomever was speaking was alone and at peace and able to observe there surrounds for the first time in while. They are very emerged into what is happening around them and we get that from the keyword alone. I like this poem because it has wonderful imagery with "the pavements gray" and "water lapping". It makes you feel very serine and also sets the tone to make you feel very calm and almost make you feel like you are there. The line "I hear it in the deep heart's core" makes us think that this tranquility is what the speaker has been longing for and they now feel complete.

Shelley’s unrivaled admiration for the intensity and dominance of the natural environment forces the reader to feel to take on that same perspective. This first stanza alone, essentially gives the reader a brief topographic and geographical analysis of the distinct features of the mountain, which eventually will be the foundation on which he forges his coming metaphors concerning human imagination. As the poem continues, Shelley concurrently reflects on the distressing supremacy of the ordinary world and it’s counterpart, the unseen vastness of the universe both inside the conscious and around him. This is where Shelley first melts the idyllic nature of romanticism with the idyllic concepts of environmental conversationalist

     “The Stolen Child”, a poem by W.B. Yeats, can be analyzed on several levels. The poem is about a group of faeries that lure a child away from his home “to the waters and the wild”(chorus). On a more primary level the reader can see connections made between the faery world and freedom as well as a societal return to innocence. On a deeper and second level the reader can infer Yeats’ desire to see a unified Ireland of simpler times. The poem uses vivid imagery to establish both levels and leaves room for open interpretation especially with the contradictory last stanza.

The twenty-four old romantic poet John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written in the spring of 1819 was one of his last of six odes. That he ever wrote for he died of tuberculosis a year later. Although, his time as a poet was short he was an essential part of The Romantic period (1789-1832). His groundbreaking poetry created a paradigm shift in the way poetry was composed and comprehended. Indeed, the Romantic period provided a shift from reason to belief in the senses and intuition. “Keats’s poem is able to address some of the most common assumptions and valorizations in the study of Romantic poetry, such as the opposition between “organic culture” and the alienation of modernity”. (O’Rourke, 53) The irony of Keats’s Urn is he likens

The verse of John Keats is loaded with individual investigations of profound and serious emotions and reflections on life. His sonnets concern an assortment of topics, for example, time everlasting and the progression of time and the want to discover perceptual quality amidst constant change. From pursuing his verse I trust that these topics are unmistakably vital to Keats, as they can every now and again be viewed as the establishments on which quite a bit of his verse is based. Another essential part of Keats' verse is his utilization of rich, dynamic symbolism, regularly identified with nature, which is utilized to give noteworthy bits of knowledge into life. In this exposition, I will talk about the above topics, and how I reacted to Keats' treatment of them. The sonnets on which I will base this paper are, “Ode to a Nightingale”, “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be.”

The aim of this article is an attempt to know the different moods of the poet John Keats how Keats moves from Negation to Affirmation how he reacted against problems, how he turned between reality and unreality, joys and sufferings, imagination and reason, and how he turned towards poetry. The poet who once declared that he wanted to “fade for away, dissolve and quite

Journalist, Isabella Bird, in her journal, “Lake Tahoe,” expresses her feelings about Lake Tahoe and the journey there. Bird's purpose is to outline her trip and journey to Lake Tahoe. She adopts a nostalgic tone in order to express her feelings to her readers.