William Butler Yeats

    In his eloquent poem "The Second Coming" William Butler Yeats uses word choice and phrase combinations to convey to the reader an understanding of his sentiment of impossibility concerning the fate of spirituality for the human race. His inner conscious is spread out in the poem for the reader to either accompany him in his darkness or to turn their back and continue to believe in their own form of hopefulness in spirituality.   Yeats cleverly hints to the reader his despair in the

point the work of William Butler Yeats. In particular, Barthelme alludes to Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming”, a dystopian work, much ahead of its time. Barthelme writes, “The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator…” (Barthelme 2817), alluding to Yeats’ line “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;”. Yeats published “The Second Coming” shortly after the end of WWI, perhaps as a statement that the ending of that war harkened a frightening new age. On top of Yeats advancing a dystopian

world, one man's experience” (W.B. Yeats n.d.). Such perspicacity is evident in the works of William Butler Yeats, whose collection of poetry, The Tower, reflects his fascination with mysticism and the days of yore. The poem “Sailing the Byzantium” illustrates how William Butler Yeats use of artistic diction and symbolism reveals the parallels of ancient civilization and the cycle of life and communicates the dual themes of obsolescence and perpetuity. Yeats’ elegy, details a metaphoric spiritual

Although “The Second Coming” maybe one of William Yeats more complex poems, it still conveys the perfect image of the second coming of Christ. In this poem by William Butler Yeats, Yeats uses symbolism, allusions and imagery to bring together an awe-inspiring poem about the second coming of Jesus Christ. First, there are many examples of symbolism in this poem. The use of symbols in the poem helps to convey the message of how World War I was when William Butler Yeats wrote it. In the first line he says

Yeats, B. William. The Collected Poems of WB Yeats. New York: Macmillan, 1996. 318 The importance of this book is that it contains some of the works of poetry which were carried out by William Yeats. Arguably, the most salient feature in the book is the attempt at portraying the shift that characterized Yeats in his work, so that his works are arranged almost chronologically to underscore this standpoint. Works that depict him as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving Rosicrucian symbols and legends

vision of the world, one man's experience” (W.B. Yeats n.d.). Such perspicacity is evident in the works of William Butler Yeats, whose poetry reflects his fascination with mysticism and the days of yore. The poem “Sailing the Byzantium” illustrates how William Butler Yeats use of artistic diction and symbolism reveals the parallels between ancient civilization and the cycle of life and communicates the dual themes of obsolescence and perpetuity. Yeats’ elegy, details a metaphoric spiritual journey

William Butler Yeats: WHEN YOU ARE OLD In the poem “When you are old”, Yeats (1893) writes: “When you are old and grey and full of sleep” (line 1). To me this is clearly speaking of old age, however, when he says that she is full of sleep he is using this as a metaphor for being at the brink of death. It is not that she is peacefully in a deep sleep, but rather her time is near and she barely has the energy to stay awake. Yeats (1893) changes the tone by writing, “Your eyes had once, and of their

The Wise Men Speak (An Analysis on Sailing) William Butler Yeats, was a poet from the Victorian age. Philosophers say that Yeats was one of the greatest poets of all time, “William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century”(Adams). One of Yeats most famous poem was Sailing to Byzantium. In the poem Sailing, Yeats expresses three very important messages. The messages that Yeats expresses in Sailing are, that the soul wants to leave body when it's about time

“When You Are Old,” written by William Butler Yeats, is a poem where the speaker directly addresses his lover telling her to imagine a future based on information from her past. The speaker invites the woman to cast her mind forward to a period when she is “old and grey. . .” (Yeats 1); to a time when she is no longer young and glamorous, but rather a frail woman “nodding by the fire. . .” (Yeats 2) possibly nearing death. The speaker calls to his beloved saying that while in her old age, she should

tumultuous early 1900s, many poems were written on the horrors both heard of and encountered first hand. Some poets, like William Butler Yeats, wrote about the horrors of rebellion they encountered; others, like Wilfred Owen, were part of the dreadful World War I and were urged by their memories to start writing (“Wilfred Owen”). Both were part of the modernist movement, of which Yeats is often regarded as one of the founders. Modernism was a movement that outstretched literature and poetry, yet provided