Essays on William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats’ “When You Are Old” illustrates the theme that people will regret all of the opportunities for true love they have missed. Yeats writes, “How many loved your moments of glad grace, / And loved your beauty with love false or true, / But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you” (L....
Leda and the Swan is a book by William Butler Yeats is a poem that is created with 3 stanza with a total of 14 lines. The poem is about a Greek myth where the god Zues takes the disguise as a swan to seduce or rape a woman named Leda. Leda being the mother...
William Butler Yeats is considered to be one of the foremost poets of the 20th century. Despite being assimilated into the English literary canon and European modernism, he always affirmed his Irish nationality and maintained his cultural roots. By adopting Irish subjects and traditions in many of his works, he attempted to create a distinctively...
