William Butler Yeats is another poet who discusses the challenges of poetry. ... The poem is written in perfect iambic pentameter, which seems obvious to me as a decision that Yeats had to have had an awareness of. By choosing such a rigid, calculated structure for the poem, Yeats highlights the labor that goes into creating poetry. ... Yeats's somewhat melancholy reflections continue as he wonders where upon the lake they will make their nests, until one day he finds they have flown away. Thus far, the poems of Yeats and Valery offer glimpses of the poetic consciousness for the most par...

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William Butler Yeats, Ireland's greatest poet, dramatist and essayist was born into a strongly independent Irish Protestant family in Dublin on June 13,1965.He was the eldest of five children. ... Yeats was sensitive and artistic. ... Yeats became a familiar figure in Dublin. ... In 1923, Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature. ... Yeats is right, and the girl is mistaken. ...

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Yeats The first four lines of, "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats ring true throughout, "Things Fall Apart," and served as inspiration for Cinua Achebe. ... Yeats) describes just how sudden the change was in Umuofia. ... Yeats) Related to the Commissioner and his messengers. ... Yeats) These lines perfectly explain change that the Ibo people were put through. ... Yeats) Is parallel to the white man's ideas being reborn in Umuofia. ...

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The Dogs of War In his poem, "The Second Coming", William Butler Yeats uses strong, precise syntax to make the reader feel the intensity of his words while conveying a dark atmosphere that gives the reader an uncertain and seemingly hopeless sense of what is to come. ... Particularly in the first stanza, Yeats uses punctuation to separate each point that he is trying to project. ... Yeats uses these types of phrases to demonstrate just how difficult it was to live with oneself in those times. ... I believe this is how Yeats saw the world. ... In the last two lines of the first stanza, ...

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Normans defeat Saxons; William the Conqueror becomes English king I. ... William Butler Yeats was another author whose work was influenced; he used it as an attempt to make the Irish aware of their lost heroic past. ... Battle continued until both Anglo. and Danes were defeated in 1066 by William, Duke of Normandy, and his invading force of Normands. ...

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