'a Prayer For My Daughter' 'sailing To Byzantium' And 'the Long-Legged Fly' Analysis Of William Butler Yeats
To contemporary readers, Yeats can seem baffling; he was opposed to the age of science, progress, democracy and modernization, and his occultist and mythological answers to those problems can seem horribly anachronistic for a poet who died barely sixty years ago, but what is strongly identifiable throughout Yeats writing his the personal honesty that he arrived at. In terms of the evolution of his poetic craft, With the brutal arrival of the new age of change of the First World War, Yeats believed his duty was to confront and speak to this new and ugly dispensation. With this reinvention of himself, Yeats’ work combined elements of both the Romantics and the Modernist period rendering his poetry both personal and universal in its range. ‘A Prayer For My Daughter’ exemplifies this as not simply does Yeats pray for the salvation of his daughter in troubled times but also explores the attributes he believes civilisation depends upon.
‘A Prayer For My Daughter’ written shortly......
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