William Butler Yeats Research Paper

William Butler Yeats was a very talented poet. In his lifetime he accomplished many great things. He was a 20th century Irish poet. He helped with the foundation with the Abbey Theatre, and later served as an Irish senator. He was well known for believing in occults, and including them in his works. Also, William Butler Yeats was a pervert. The study of the childhood of William Butler Yeats, his natural origin, his religious beliefs, and his Irish decent affected the style and setting of his poetry causing readers to be intrigued by his compositions.

William was born at Sandy mount in Dublin, Ireland. His father was John Butler Yeats. John Yeats was studying law, but he abandoned that profession when he discovered his love for art. John continued …show more content…
William's mother spent most of her time telling her children Irish folklore, this is what piqued his interest and made him start loving poetry. William Butler was taught in Ireland and London, and wrote his first works when he was seventeen. Some of his work was inspired by occult like stories. William had an interest in mysticism, spiritualism, occultism, and astrology. He was a member of the paranormal research organization called "The Ghost Club". William's mystical interest was inspired by studies of Hinduism by Mohini Chatterjee, and Emmanuel Swedenborg. Some critics did not like Yeats' work, and called it the "deplorable spectacle of a grown man occupied with the mumbo-jumbo of magic and the nonsense of India". Yeats' passion was started by his father. John Yeats was bound by religious skepticism, but he needed to believe in something. A hunger for the spiritual life made he to seek out a different system of beliefs. Yeats' spent his lifetime yearning for a contact with the spirit world. This naturally led him to seek contact with the spiritual work through occult practices. Roy Foster, Yeats official biographer, points out that Yeats' practices led him to complex relationships with many women. Most women shared his beliefs, and almost all of the women who shared his beliefs in the occult were included in his poems. Talking with the dead, mediums, supernatural things, reincarnation, and Oriental mysticism fascinated William through his entire life. William became a member of the Dublin Loge of the Hermetic Society with Russell in