William Butler Yeats The Lake Of Innisfere

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) stands at the turning point between the squeamish period and Modernism, the conflicting currents of which affected his poetry. Born in Dublin, Yeats family travel to London when he was two and he lived there until he was sixteen. His mothers traditional Irish songs and stories and holiday visits to Co. Sligo kept the connection to Ireland strong. Yeats canvas at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, his first parade of poetry being published in 1889. The Wanderings of Oisin and other poems already showed concerns that were to remain central to his writing - Ireland, spiritualism and love. His earliest books root for on the romantics and pre-Raphaelite ideals and mythologise a Celtic Twilight. However, increased interlocking with nationalist politics was to have a significant opposition on his poetic style: his diction grew plainer, the syntax tighter and the meter structures, whilst retaining their traditional form, more muscular. To this middle period belongs his failed courtship of the well-favored nationalist, Maud Gonne and his founding in 1899 of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin which became a focus for many of the writers of the Irish Revival of which Yeats was a chance on figure. Yeats wrote prolifically for the stage but also continued with his poetry.



Another classical influence at this time was Modernism, Ezra Pound in particular, who introduced Yeats to the principles of Japanese Noh theatre. As events in Ireland began to take a bloody turn, Yeats poems progressively addressed public themes as in Easter 1916, his troubled memorial of the Easter uprising. He entered official political life when he was elected to the Senate, the upper house of the new Free State, in 1922. His personal life was also changing: after a final rejection from Maud Gonne and then from her daughter, Yeats married Georgie Hyde Lees with whom he was very happy. Her fire in spiritualism echoed Yeats and his explorations in this area informed some of his...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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