Selected Poems of W. B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats is generally considered to be one of the twentieth century's key English-language poets. He can be considered a Symbolist poet in that he used allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career. Yeats chooses words and puts them together so that in addition to a particular meaning they suggest other meanings that seem more significant. His use of symbols is usually something physical which is used both to be itself and to suggest other, perhaps immaterial, timeless qualities. Yet, unlike most modernists who experimented with free verse, Yeats was also a master of the traditional verse forms. The impact of modernism on his work can be seen in the increasing abandonment of the more conventionally poetic diction of his early work in favor of the more austere language and more direct approach to his themes that increasingly characterises the poetry and plays of his middle period, comprising the volumes In the Seven Woods, Responsibilities and The Green Helmet. His later poetry and plays are written in a more personal vein, and the works written in the last twenty years of his life include mention of his son and daughter, as well as meditations on the experience of growing old. In his poem, The Circus Animals' Desertion, he describes the inspiration for these late works:
Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart
展开- When You Are Old522 字
- What Was Lost220 字
- The Two Trees1298 字
- Towards Break Of Day783 字
- To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time920 字
- To A Young Girl259 字
- To A Young Beauty553 字
- The Wisdom Of The King11417 字
- The Wild Swans At Coole1009 字
- The Wheel290 字
- The Two Trees1311 字
- The Tower6381 字
- The Three Beggars2358 字
- The Stolen Child1567 字
- The Song of the Happy Shepherd1937 字
- The Shadowy Waters31063 字
- The Seven Sages1334 字
- The Secret Rose1390 字
- The Second Coming918 字
- The Rose Tree537 字
- The Old Age Of Queen Maeve6753 字
- The Moods169 字
- The Mask469 字
- The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart254 字
- The Lake Isle Of Innisfree490 字
- The Hosting Of The Sidhe188 字
- The Host Of The Air1326 字
- The Harp of Aengus586 字
- The Fish298 字
- The Everlasting Voices337 字
- The Dolls565 字
- The Crucifixion Of The Outcast15217 字
- The Black Tower1054 字
- The Arrow322 字
- Swifts Epitaph170 字
- Sailing to Byzantium645 字
- O Do Not Love Too Long341 字
- No Second Troy514 字
- Leda And The Swan628 字
- Lapis Lazuli2012 字
- King And No King582 字
- In the Seven Woods342 字
- Her Praise839 字
- He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven353 字
- Easter, 19162234 字
- Broken Dreams1508 字
- Baile And Aillinn7275 字
- Against Unworthy Praise551 字
- Aedh Wishes For The Clothes Of Heaven356 字
- A Prayer For My Daughter3024 字