Yeats' Love of Ireland
Throughout Yeats' poetry, he is constantly referring to, with veiled metaphors or otherwise, his home country; Ireland. Yet his love for Ireland is not as simple as it could be. He has criticisms and anxieties for his home country, which are eloquently displayed in his poetry.Despite the complexity of Yeats' love for Ireland, there are references to his pure adoration of Ireland and its people. In the, largely political, poem "To Ireland in the Coming Times", Yeats describes Ireland and her people as "the angelic clan". This pure and simple love of Ireland lies at the base of all Yeats' concerns for his adored country, and we can thus understand why he is so worried about Ireland and her future, for you can only really worry about something that you truly love:One of the purest of Yeats' loves was that for rural Ireland. He spent as much time as he could in the countryside of Ireland, in places such as Coole Park, where he wrote a melancholy poem called "The Wild Swans at Coole". In this poem his love for rural Ireland is betrayed. He uses simple and direct language which conveys his simple love for Ireland's landscape, this is in contrast to many of his poems, about mor
This resulted in the birth of Helen, years later Helen ran away and Agamemnon attempted to return her to her home. This fear of committing to a single cause always dogged Yeats and his ideals. The second stanza goes further as to emphasise the helplessness of the Irish, unable to "push the feathered glory from her loosening thighs". Within this poem he shows his inherent desire to affiliate himself with the poor peasant farmers of Eire. The poem starts off with Yeats imagining the traditional "freckled" Irish peasant who wears "Connemara clothes", and goes "at dawn to cast his flies". Yeats tells himself that when "Time began to rant and rage" all that was needed, was for "the thoughts of Ireland [to] brood upon a measured quietude". In this poem he addresses the dilemma that Irelandand her "red-rose-bordered" politics, always demanded action. It could be argued that Yeats' poetry was always searching for simplicity and clarity, not just in respect to Ireland, but also in respect to the role of poetry and the afterlife. Yeats' love for Ireland is multi-faceted and genuine. The first stanza describes how the swan brutally raped Leda, with "a sudden blow". With a political poem, the more shock, the more emphatic the impact. Yeats then pictures this "freckled man" as one from the audience for which he writes. This theme of internal conflict over his middle class existence, and that of the Irish peasant is apparent in "The Fisherman".
Common topics in this essay:
Civil War,
Forsees Death,
Prayer Daughter,
Trojan War,
England Ireland,
Wind Yeats,
Throughout Yeats',
Swans Coole,
Times Yeats,
Robert Gregory,
love ireland,
irish peasant,
rural ireland,
internal conflict,
civil war,
weather ireland,
england ireland,
yeats' love ireland,
yeats' love,
love rural ireland,
feathered glory,
simple love,
|
Acceptance Essays
