W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats

1. Lake Isle of Innisfree

   • Themes
     • Nature
     • Escapism
   • Contrast between London and Innisfree
     • While I stand on the roadway or pavements gray
   • Alliteration
     • nine bean rows
     • a hive for the honey bee
   • I hear lake water lapping with sounds by the shore
     • Alliteration "L" "S"
     • Assonance
       • Low
       • Shore
   • Assonance
     • Of clay and wattles made
   • Tone
     • Lonely
       • Nostalgic for Ireland
     • Dreaming of London

2. Wild Swans at Coole

   • Still atmosphere
     • "A still sky"
   • Themes
     • Youth & old age
     • Nature
     • Permanance & change
   • Imagery
     • Autumn beauty
     • Trod with a lighter tread
     • Cold comapnionable streams
   • Onomatopoeia
     • "scatter
     • Clamorous
   • Contrast v1 & v2
     • Sadness at getting old vs Peronal
   • Alliteration
     • "Still sky"
     • "Bell beat"

3. September 1913

   • Year of Dublin lockout
   • Irish merchant class people
   • Heroic Ireland past
     • "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone"
   • Mean Spirited present
   • Imagery
     • "Fumble in a greasy till"
   • Repitition
     • "for this"
     • Refrain
       • "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
   • Language
     • Colloquial
       • "God help us"
       • "And what"
       • "Could they save"
   • Metaphor
     • The grey wing upon every tide
   • Alliteration
     • "World like wind"
   • Finians Vs Patriots

4. Sailing to Byzantium

   • Themes
     • Old age
     • mortality of man vs immortality of art
     • escapism
     • changing world
   • expresses pain of growing old
   • imaginary voyage
   • contrast between imperfect world and perfect art
   • Byzantium represents an ideal civilisation where culture is appreciated
   • Repetition
     • "sing and louder sing"
   • Yeats delivers his messages clearly
     • "This is no country for old men"