Irish rebellion of Easter, 1916, moved him deeply. In 1917, he married Georgie Hyde-Lees, who bore him a daughter and a son. In 1922 he became a senator of the founded Irish Free State. For six years he served as Minister of Fine Arts in the Dublin Cabinet. In 1923, Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature. Yeats continued to play an active role in Irish life for the following several years. In 1932, he made the last of several trips to the United States. In 1938, his health began to fail, he moved to South France. He died on January 28, 1939 and was buried near Nice. In 1948, his body was returned to Ireland and was laid to rest in Drumcliff Churchyard, near the town of Sligo. .
Yeats was proud, sensitive, courageous and independent as a great poet and playwright. Yeats successfully made his poetry embody the truth of his life. As if to carry this truth beyond the grave, he wrote his own famous epitaph on his tombstone. They are the last words in his Collected Poems: "Cast a cold eye on life, on death, Horseman, pass by!" .
Ⅱ.The Poem "For Anne Gregory." W. B. Yeats was the greatest figure in the poetry of the early part of 20th century. His work covered fifty years. Yeats' early lyrical poetry and drama drew inspiration from Irish legend, but his later writing became increasingly engaged with his own time. In his later work, his themes became more universal. His main subject was the way in which the world and the people in it are divided, and how they can be made a whole. The following were two poems written in his old age. The first poem is like a conversation taking place between the elderly poet and the lovely young girl, Anne Gregory, She was, in fact, the granddaughter of Lady Gregory, Yeats' friends and patron.
For Anne Gregory .
Never shall a young man,.
Thrown into despair .
By those great honey-coloured.
Ramparts at your ear.
Love you for yourself alone .
And not your yellow hair.
"Turning an turning in the widening gyre/ The Falcon cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" (Lines 1-4 W. B. Yeats The first four lines of, "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats ring true throughout, "Things Fall Apart,"...
The two poems written by W. B. ... In the poems Yeats admires the sacrifice of the revolutionaries and yearns for a new Ireland. ... This illuminates Yeats' awareness of the current issues and his desperate need for the success of the revolution? ... In the last stanza, Romantic Ireland's death does not appear and Yeats shows his respect to the old heroes again. ...
Yeats is an Irish poet who wrote many different poems. ... This poem was based around a love interest that Yeats had. ... Yeats poem really takes on this stereotype. ... In Butcher's story, the love of his life leaves him and he begins a downward spiral. ... Yeats' poem showed us the reality behind his love for another person: The stereotypical love poem. ...
47 In a minute there is time 48 For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. 49 For I have known them all already, known them all: 50 Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, 51 I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; 52 I know the voices dying with a dying fall 53 Beneath the music from a farther room. 54 So how should I presume? ... NOTES Other poems by T. ... The poet's life and works ... ... works and days: Hesiod's Works and Days, an 8th-century (B.C.) description of rural life. 42. ... Andrew Marvell's "Let us...
By the end of the nineteenth century the pre-industrial economy and way of life had almost disappeared. ... Yeats and T.S. ... In 1898 he published his Wessex Poems, verse that he had written over the previous thirty years. His poems are largely traditional in theme, form, and structure, and show a continuity with the Wordsworthian art of recording the impact of ordinary daily events on an individual and sensitive mind. ... Some of the poems are gently iro...
Synod of Whitby unites British Christian Church w/ Roman Church F. 700-799 1. ... Compilation of Manyoshu, Japanese anthology about 4,500 poems c. ... Composition of the Poetic Edda, a famous cycle of Norse mythological poems 2. ... Loyal dependency was basic to Anglo. life. ... Brooding outlook on life. 2. ...
