Essays on William Butler Yeats

Irish Drama: Comparing Two Plays

British literary landscape has long been diligently adorned and complemented by the magnificent works of Irish authors, all of them mirroring the peculiar culture, mentality and traditions of the people. In Irish literary legacy, dramaturgy is a remarkable genre, while history and myths are the common thematic aspects of the works. Interestingly, due to the complex historical background of Ireland and its Northern part, one could draw parallels even between seemingly different plays separated by decades. A good example is observed in a kind of symbolic interplay between the plays Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme ...

World literature

One of the clearest and most significant associations with the world of Ireland is the poetry written by William Butler Yeats “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”. The poem Irish in origin by its form is the ordinary visualization of the peaceful life of the author which characterizes not writer`s feeling, but his life and carrier as well. The poem was written by William Butler Yeats in London when walking down the street he passed some shops with murmuring small waterfall in the shop windows to attract the buyers. He suddenly remembered the lake near Sligo, the place where ...

William butler Yeats authored, ‘The second coming’ in the year 1919. The world war first was just ended and its effect is loomed in the poem, written by Yeats. At the beginning of this poem, author explains how the world has been turned into pandemonium. Yeats blames evil powers for this chaotic situation that has occupied brains of good Christians. A number of people find Yeats using the collective unconscious in his poem, ‘The second coming’. This paper intends to discuss the poem, with special focus on the use of collective unconscious in the poem along with other related ...