Poetry Guide: William Butler Yeats

By Raja Sharma

His symbolic poetry distinguishes W. B. Yeats. He continued to use his highly allusive imagery and symbolic structures in almost all his poems, all through his writing career.

Another significant aspect of his writing was the diction he used. His selection of words was so precise that besides being meaningful, they suggest other abstract thoughts which do happen to be more significant and resonant. Due to his allusive use of symbols and emphatic diction, his poems gain timeless qualities.

Yeats mostly applied traditional verse forms to his poems, unlike the other modernists who often experimented with free verse.

In the last twenty years of his life, his poetry and plays began to add a kind of personal vein. His experience of growing old often found place in his writings.

In the present book you will find the summary and analysis of five of his best poems. These summaries and analyses have been written to assist the students of English poetry and English Literature.

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Raja Sharma

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Nov 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301072880

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Poetry Guide: William Butler Yeats

By Raja Sharma

Copyright@2012 Raja Sharma

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Preface

William Butler Yeats is regarded as one of the major 20th Century English language poets. His poetry has ensconced him at a place where many of his contemporaries failed to reach.

His symbolic poetry distinguishes W. B. Yeats. He continued to use his highly allusive imagery and symbolic structures in almost all his poems, all through his writing career.

Another significant aspect of his writing was the diction he used. His selection of words was so precise that besides being meaningful, they suggest other abstract thoughts which do happen to be more significant and resonant. Due to his allusive use of symbols and emphatic diction, his poems gain timeless qualities.

Yeats mostly applied traditional verse forms to his poems, unlike the other modernists who often experimented with free verse.

In the last twenty years of his life, his poetry and plays began to add a kind of personal vein. His experience of growing old often found place in his writings.

In the present book you will find the summary and analysis of five of his best poems. These summaries and analyses have been written to assist the students of English poetry and English Literature.

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