Maud Gonne

the narrator’s struggle to balance his desire to submerge himself into the red rose and the consequences that can come out of it, thus the “sad”. Moreover, it is also relevant to refer that the “red rose” from the poem may also be referring to Maud Gonne, Yeats’ unrequited love, whose story has many parallels with Yeats’ relationship with Old England, the spiritual world. Both the red rose and his lover personify an “Eternal…

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…

anthology. Love is a frequent theme because I am a clichéd hopeless romantic who simply loves anything to do with love. Some of the greatest poems come from those who are in love, take W.B Yeats for example who writes of his unrequited love for Maud Gonne. There's a quote that says all lovers are poets and I believe certain poems in my anthology portrays this. My poetry anthology also features poets that I enjoy, but believe are underrated such as Lily Cigale, Caitlyn Siehl, and Rupi Kaur. Some…

Cathleen Ni Hoolihan was a play written in 1902 by Yeats, with the help of Lady Gregory. The play had Maud Gonne, a woman actively involved in Irish Nationalism, playing the poor old woman who inspires Michael to sacrifice himself for Ireland. (Murray. (1997). P20.) In class we discussed the significance of the play Cathleen Ni Hoolihan, and that it can be seen as a propaganda play, as it is promoted Irish Nationalism. The play is set in 1798, the year of the Irish Rebellion against the…

“There is a way of making free with the past”: W.B. Yeats’s “A Prayer for My Daughter” and Eavan Boland’s “The Pomegranate” as allegories for poetic legacy Throughout his long career as a writer, William Butler Yeats established a legacy as perhaps the most influential Irish poet of the twentieth century. He was an advocate for Irish Nationalism and one of the leaders of the Celtic revival movement. Through Yeats’s pastoral, mythic imagery and, later, his explorations of the country’s political…

needs to be controlled by a strong and rational male figure. These ideologies are the main reasons why women are represented in such a poor way. Furthermore, Ireland is used as a subject to these feminine labels that are brought up in this society. Maud Gonne is personified as ‘Mother Ireland’ in this play, while Kathleen Ni Houlihan is an image of nationalism in Ireland. There is a poor depiction of women in this play from the beginning. Firstly women are treated as objects instead of subjects.…