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‘No poet in our day has written more about his family and friends than Yeats, and no one has been more successful in enlarging them to heroic proportions.'
1. Discuss, commenting specifically on a small group of poems.
2. Make your analysis as detailed as possible and draw the generalizations appropriate to your analysis.

I will begin this essay with a brief history of the life of William Butler Yeats in order to secure an understanding of the social and historical context from which he created his works. I will then provide a brief explanation of Yeats's work over the two separate periods of his life, providing a brief account of the influences in each period and their effect on themes, styles and techniques. I will go on to show how Yeats intertwined his life within his work in order to begin showing how and why he enlarged friends and family to ‘heroic proportions'. I will then provide a detailed analysis of ‘In Memory of Major Robert Gregory' as an example of enlarging......

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