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 more ambiguous subjects, which are often difficult to follow, inaccessible and complicated. This is not the case here, however, he describes the trees as being in their "autumn beauty" and the swans in the water as "Mysterious, beautiful". "The Lake of Innisfree" also portrays Yeats love for rural Ireland, he describes "the purple glow" at noon and the "water lapping". It is in this poem that we are introduced to the fantasy vision Yeats held of the Irish peasant.
             "To the Rose Upon The Rood Of Time" is one of Yeats' earliest poems. Within this poem he shows his inherent desire to affiliate himself with the poor peasant farmers of Eire. He does t...