W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats

Lake Isle of Innisfree
1. Themes
  1. Nature
  2. Escapism
2. Contrast between London and Innisfree
  1. While I stand on the roadway or pavements gray
3. Alliteration
  1. nine bean rows
  2. a hive for the honey bee
4. I hear lake water lapping with sounds by the shore
  1. Alliteration "L" "S"
  2. Assonance
    1. Low
    2. Shore
5. Assonance
  1. Of clay and wattles made
6. Tone
  1. Lonely
    1. Nostalgic for Ireland
  2. Dreaming of London
Wild Swans at Coole
1. Still atmosphere
  1. "A still sky"
2. Themes
  1. Youth & old age
  2. Nature
  3. Permanance & change
3. Imagery
  1. Autumn beauty
  2. Trod with a lighter tread
  3. Cold comapnionable streams
4. Onomatopoeia
  1. "scatter
  2. Clamorous
5. Contrast v1 & v2
  1. Sadness at getting old vs Peronal
6. Alliteration
  1. "Still sky"
  2. "Bell beat"
September 1913
1. Year of Dublin lockout
2. Irish merchant class people
3. Heroic Ireland past
  1. "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone"
4. Mean Spirited present
5. Imagery
  1. "Fumble in a greasy till"
6. Repitition
  1. "for this"
  2. Refrain
    1. "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
7. Language
  1. Colloquial
    1. "God help us"
    2. "And what"
    3. "Could they save"
8. Metaphor
  1. The grey wing upon every tide
9. Alliteration
  1. "World like wind"
10. Finians Vs Patriots
Sailing to Byzantium
1. Themes
  1. Old age
  2. mortality of man vs immortality of art
  3. escapism
  4. changing world
2. expresses pain of growing old
3. imaginary voyage
4. contrast between imperfect world and perfect art
5. Byzantium represents an ideal civilisation where culture is appreciated
6. Repetition
  1. "sing and louder sing"
7. Yeats delivers his messages clearly
  1. "This is no country for old men"

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