Assignment

Lecture 1
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer. He was one of the greatest
English language poet of the 20th century. He received the novel prize for literature in 1923. His
poetry themes cover wide ranging areas as
 Love
 Politics
 Old- age art
 Aristocracy
 Violence and prophecy
 History myth
 courtesy hatred
 innocence
Yeats began by writing epic poems such as The Isle of Statues and The Wanderings of Oisin. His
other early poems are lyrics on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects. His early
poetry is romantic. The later one is realistic both in theme and treatment. He began by producing
poems in the Pre-Raphaelite romantic tradition. There early poems are openly escapist, and their
dreamy atmosphere is accentuated by rhythms. The use of Irish mythology and folklore
electrified all Europe.

Lecture 2
In this lesson I know about William Bulter Yeats.
1. He was an Irish poet.
2. He was the first figure of 20th century literature.
3. His poems themes are mythical.
4. His written attitude.
5. He shows  imagery and symbolic structures in his poem.
In the stolen child yeats uses myth to show the innocence to the society and the view is
symbolized the separation of the real world. In this poem, the struggle to maintain the innocence
of childhood versus the duty of having to experience of the reality of life. In the end, the faeries
will protect the child from having to go into the duties of the grown-up life.
The lake of Innisfree reminded yeats past, boyhood when he visited that lake again. This lake is
full of genuine natural beauty. Yeats wants to go there again and again and live there alone
because of the beauty of the lake.
Lecture 3
From this lesson I learn, The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of artists in the Victorian era. The
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in
1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael
Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner. The Pre-Raphaelites
believed art should be as similar to the real world.
Millais Christ in the House of his Parents is a remarkable religious painting. It presents the Holy
Family in a realistic manner, emphasizing the small details that bring the tableau to life. It is a
scene we can easily imagine happening, but it is still laced with the symbolism expected of a
Christian subject. It is Millais’ marriage of these two ideas that makes Christ in the House of his
Parents such a compelling image, and at the same time, made it so reprehensible to Millais
contemporaries.
Millais painted the landscape part of the painting outside by the Hogsmill River and painted the
figure of Ophelia. Millais and the Pre-Raphaelites believed the landscape was of equal
importance to the figure and it was painted first.

Lecture 4
From this lesson I know, A Coat by William Butler Yeats is a short ten line poem that is
contained within one set of lines. These lines do follow a specific rhyme scheme. It conforms to
the pattern of ABBACDCCDE. This poem wrote equalizes of yeat own writing practice,
meaning his process. It wasn’t a simple coat, but one that is covered in embroidery. The coat is
something that one can wear, and with all the embroidery, it represents his identity.
Yeats published No Second Troy in 1916 in the collection responsibilities after he had already
proposed to Gonne and been rejected. After rejecting he is trying to come to terms with the fact
that Maud Gonne did not love him like a lover. He is forgiving her although she did nothing for
being so beautiful that he could not fail to love her.

Lecture 5
Yeats's poetry can be seen as consisting of three phases: Early, Middle, and Late. His early
poetry is romantic. The later one is realistic both in theme and treatment. In Yeats's early poetry
explained the influences of English Romanticism, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and
Symbolism.
In The Second Coming, Yeats expressed reflect the division of modern world after the World
War I. The poem is considered a masterpiece of modernist poetry and his 20th century major
work. The Second Coming is the way Yeats experiences war and disaster, authorizing the evil
and bloodthirsty. In The Second Coming Yeats describes a difference between good people and
bad people.

Lecture 6
William Butler Yeats was written Leda and the Swan in 1923. Leda and the Swan tells
something like its beginning. This poem is a sonnet that focuses on the story from Greek myth
which adopted the form of a swan and rapes the girl Leda and impregnates her with the child
who will become Helen of Troy. Yeats understands the history of Leda and the Swan. The
history of Leda is that raped by the god Zeus in the form of a swan. She laid eggs which laid into
Clytemnestra and Helen.
In this poem I learn, the love and worry of a father who has been blessed with a daughter. A
Prayer for my Daughter is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in. It is
written to Anne, his daughter with Georgie Hyde Lees whom Yeats married after his last
marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. This poem presents the poet's hopes for
his daughter and his expectation of her becoming a very beautiful woman, blessed with the
attributes of a virtuous soul. He focuses his daughter grows up to be sweet-natured, free of hatred
and full of innocence.

Lecture 7
From this lesson I know, Sailing to Byzantium is a narrative poem about nature. It was written
by William Butler Yeats and published in 1928. Byzantium an ancient city on the Bosporus
founded by the Greeks and site of modern Istanbul. The poem speaks about the journey of an old
man who is traveling to a new country. It explains how he seeks spiritual guidance and discovers
the glorious work of art and aging. The themes of Sailing to Byzantium are
 Man vs Nature
 Eternity
This poem focus on the change of life and the performance of life. The speaker wants to escape
from the world where wise people are neglected.
September 1913 is a poem written by William Butler Yeats. This poem was written when the
workers of the city were fight against the mercantile classes. Yeats wrote this poem to
understand the current state of Irish politics and the beliefs of the general public. The poem
focuses on inspiring Yeats' new place of exploring his political mind and celebrating those whom
he believes worth of praise.