Maud Gonne

Through Adam’s Curse, Yeats not only comments on the movement away from true love through Ireland as a whole, but also through his own experience with ‘new love’ himself. From the first stanza, he introduces the reader to a “beautiful mild woman” (Line 2). He is referencing Maud Gonne in this lines, who he has recently lost all hope of being with, but is clearly still passionate about, for he describes her as ‘beautiful’ and ‘mild’. He “talk[s] of poetry” (Line 3) in order to cope with this loss, which is discussed in the preceding paragraph as being a method for poets to evoke feelings of true love. However, in Ireland, it is no longer the same, for his “stitching and unstitching has been naught” (Line 6). Therefore, Yeat’s coping method reveals his emotional despondency as a result of being traded by Maud Gonne as a result of Ireland’s ‘new love’, and his inability to successfully cope through poetry expounds the loss of true love, and the presence of the distorted ‘new love’ in Ireland. He references Maud Gonne in the same manner later in his poem, describing…

The extract of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ in the ‘Outsider Reader’ describes a little orphan girl, Anne, who was living at an asylum, another word for orphanage. She is trying to get adopted, but the couple who asked for an adoption wanted a boy, not a girl. In this extract Lucy Maud Montgomery describes how Anne is treated like a thing not a person, but then as the segment progresses, she is treated better. Anne is the perfect example of an outsider who has been marginalised, and she is…

In both of the books Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and Island by Allistar Macleod, each author plays on the readers five senses in order to give them the ability to place themselves in the context of the story in certain places in Canada, even though some of their readers have never been to Canada before. In Anne of Green Gables, there are many beautiful evocative descriptions of nature throughout the book, which gives the reader the ability to place themselves on Prince Edward Island…

Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel written by Jane Austen and published in 1813. Pride and Prejudice is firstly a novel about surpassing obstacles and finding true love and happiness. The story follows the emotional development of the main character Elizabeth Bennet, one of the five daughters of Bennet family, who has the tendency to judge too quickly. As the story progress, Elizabeth learns the difference between the superficial and the essential, throughout her relationship with Mr. Darcy.…

not able to marry his love, he probably thought he would wait and at the right moment marry Iseult Gonne. When Yeats starts his poem ‘What need you, being come to sense,’ sounds more like he does not need Maud Gonne anymore. No more waiting and now he has seen her daughter it would make better sense to marry her daughter for the insult Maud Gonne had poured onto him when she rejected him. The line which was repeated mostly ‘Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,’ (Yeats, 1913) portrays more like the…

He had influences from his father John Butler Yeats and famous patriot O'Leary. He was born in Ireland but completed most of his work in London. He had his first publication at Dublin University Review in 1885. He had the love for a lady named Gonne who was very important to him in his life. His romantic poems really moved his readers with his clever words, themes, and moods. Based on all information presented we can understand where and when William Butler Yeats got his first publication, which…

“No Second Troy” is a poem by W.B. Yeats about his love relationship with a beautiful Irish woman called Maud Gonne. The poem is one of the greatest literary love stories of the twentieth century. It indicates how beauty can cause a tragic distraction with the reference to Helen of Troy. “Leda and the Swan” is another poem written by W.B. Yeats, it retells the fantasy from the Greek mythology of how Zeus - the most powerful god of all - raped Leda, the daughter of the king of Sparta, taking the…

all involved in occults also. William Butler Yeats was a ladies man. The first love of his life was Maud Gonne. Maud was a 23-year-old English heiress, she was also an Irish Nationalist. She was only about a year younger than William, and later said she meat Yeats as a "paint-stained art student". Maud loved "The Island of Statues" and wanted to meet him. Yeats began an obsessive infatuation, and she had a lasting effect on his poetry and his life for a long time. Yeats loved Maud, but was…

William Butler Yeats was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century; his works were inspiring and embraced a culture lost with the changing of times in Ireland. Yeats was born in the spring of 1865, to John Butler Yates and Susan Mary Pollexfen, during the time of the protestant ascendancy in Ireland; he was the oldest one of his three siblings. His father John, dissatisfied with his current standings, dropped out from law school to pursue a career as a painter and became a well…

Cathleen ni Houlihan is a mythological female figure who represents Irish nationalism in literature and art. In the play Cathleen ni Houlihan written by William Butler Yeats and Lady August Gregory, she is personified as an old, suffering woman, representing Ireland’s oppression by the English. Cathleen and the martyred Saint Joan of Arc, as represented in George Bernard Shaw’s play Saint Joan, share strong similarities. Significantly, Maud Gonne, the original Irish actress chosen to portray…