Essays on William Butler Yeats

In his writings, William Butler Yeats highlights the authorative power of literature by using it to portray the key events that shaped the country of Ireland. The poet essentially has the ability to alter the thoughts and opinions of the reader in a way that...

“The Wild Swans of Coole” and “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” are two poems written by William Butler Yeats. Each poem acknowledges the sweetness and peace nature brings to the world. Each of the poems are unique in their own ways and there are similarities...

William Butler Yeats the young occultist, politician, a romantic dramatist and a leading figure of Irish Literary Revival was initially introduced to the study and practice of the occult when he was in Art College in Dublin. Yeats deep fascination with the occultism and mysticism...

Imagination, symbolism and art are all good and important to the human soul. Stories are passed down from generation to generation to educate, to entertain and to move us. William Butler Yeats believed in the beauty and the power of these things. He wanted to...

William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney were both very influential poets who lived through a time of National struggle and Identity. Yeats lived through things such as the Easter Rising, and the Irish civil war. Heaney lived through Bloody Sunday, troubles and the violence that...

William Butler Yeats is seen all over the world as one of the greatest Irish poets of the twentieth century, his works excelled from other poets of his era since the way he structured the words onto his poems was absolutely astonishing. Even though he...

William Butler Yeats focused in his extensive poetry collection on various topics throughout his career and as he often returned to those topics it is possible to trace the development of his opinions. One of the motifs that keep reappearing in different collections and individual...

The Cold Heaven was a poem published in 1916 by William Butler Yeats. He was inspired by strange cloud patterns he saw in the sky when walking in addition to a verse in The Book of Revelations. Yeats presents the ideas of epiphany’s and revelation...

From times of antiquity to those of the present day, there exists the ponderance of the existential and the spiritual. Their connection to one another, and the ideas that encompass them both. Whether or not one believes in the concept of the soul, there exists...

The mythological allusion that Eliot considers most important is that of Tiresias. Tiresias is a character who, in Greek mythology, spent time as a man and as a woman. He was blinded for spite and had the gift of prophecy. In Tiresias, Eliot makes all...