Is Yeats a good poet? - Angélique Dongo
Yeats' excellency is clearly portrayed in his poems. His work is full of vivid, descriptive imagery and deeply analised personal feelings and strong political opinions which are evident in Lake Isle of Innisfree, Wild Swans at Coole, September 1913, Easter 1916 and Sailing to Byzantium.
eats believed that art and politics were intrinsically linked and used his writing to express his attitudes toward Irish politics, as well as to educate his readers about Irish cultural history
There are many natural images and references to nature in Yeats' poetry. These appear in poems that may be seen as nature poems at first but on closer examination it is clear that they are just a poetic way of exploring the subject matter of the poem.
While on London's busy street, Yeats heard the sound of moving water …show more content…
In Lake Isle of Innisfree Yeats uses very clear and vivid images as well as other poetic techniques throughout the poem which captivates and engulfs readers as he takes us into his dream. The major theme of this poem is escapism.
In the first stanza he paints a clear image of beans and honey which he will grow and harvest, and a small cabin of clay and wattle which he will build and live in himself. Here, he is in complete solitude and close to nature; it's his utopia. The repetition of the word go emphasises Yeats determination of escaping from the city to Innisfree. His use of Archaic language gives Innisfree a sense of timelessness and mysticism. Given rural Ireland's culture of religion and romance in the past centuries, archaic language adds to the emotional impact of the poem. In stanza two his repetition of the word peace
Yeats' excellency is clearly portrayed in his poems. His work is full of vivid, descriptive imagery and deeply analised personal feelings and strong political opinions which are evident in Lake Isle of Innisfree, Wild Swans at Coole, September 1913, Easter 1916 and Sailing to Byzantium.
eats believed that art and politics were intrinsically linked and used his writing to express his attitudes toward Irish politics, as well as to educate his readers about Irish cultural history
There are many natural images and references to nature in Yeats' poetry. These appear in poems that may be seen as nature poems at first but on closer examination it is clear that they are just a poetic way of exploring the subject matter of the poem.
While on London's busy street, Yeats heard the sound of moving water …show more content…
In Lake Isle of Innisfree Yeats uses very clear and vivid images as well as other poetic techniques throughout the poem which captivates and engulfs readers as he takes us into his dream. The major theme of this poem is escapism.
In the first stanza he paints a clear image of beans and honey which he will grow and harvest, and a small cabin of clay and wattle which he will build and live in himself. Here, he is in complete solitude and close to nature; it's his utopia. The repetition of the word go emphasises Yeats determination of escaping from the city to Innisfree. His use of Archaic language gives Innisfree a sense of timelessness and mysticism. Given rural Ireland's culture of religion and romance in the past centuries, archaic language adds to the emotional impact of the poem. In stanza two his repetition of the word peace