1. Yeats' Relationship with Maud Gonne
Therefore, as a middle-aged man, Yeats described Gonne's beauty as a "tightened bow, a kind/ That is not natural in an age like this" (8-9). ... According to Macrae, although Yeats was born in a family with over-powering pressure of his father and lack of pressure from his mother, "[oddly] enough, Yeats was attracted to forceful women and, certainly in the earlier years, he tended to be a very subservient male suitor" (103). ... At his early years, he depicted Gonne as a excessively beautiful woman with extraordinary intelligence. ...
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