Essays Tagged: "Maud Gonne"
Probing Yeats's Mysticism - Colored Nationalism In Easter 1916
striking. Though their actions are heroic, and though even Major John MacBride, who was husband of Maud Gonne and who W. B. Yeats had always regarded as a boor and brute and the antithesis of everyth ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
WB Yeats.
". This romantic ideology may also be attributed not only to his youth but also to the influence of Maud Gonne with whom he fell passionately in love and she became "a powerful figure in his poetry" . ... m he fell passionately in love and she became "a powerful figure in his poetry" . Yeats proposed to Maud Gonne several times but was always rejected. The last stanza of the poem represents an idealist ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
When O'Leary died
ere more and more unreal, as the attitude of mind became more and more strained and difficult. Miss Maud Gonne could still gather great crowds out of the slums by her beauty and sincerity, and speak o ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Love poems of William Butler Yeats
journey to understand himself and his true love.Yeats was in desperately in love with a woman named Maud Gonne for several years, but unfortunately, she did not return his feelings. She refused to mar ... beauty, obviously that of a woman, but also seems to represent again the object of beauty for him, Maud Gonne. He refers to this symbol again in 'The Sorrow of Love' where:A girl arose that had red m ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
William Butler Yeats Biography
heatre. Among his plays were 'The Countess Cathleen' (1892) and 'Cathleen ni Houlihan' (1902), with Maud Gonne in the title role. In 1899 he proposed to her, but she refused to marry him. As a means o ... tle role. In 1899 he proposed to her, but she refused to marry him. As a means of getting closer to Maud, Yeats later proposed to her daughter, who also refused.Yeats met Ezra Pound in 1912, and Pound ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
"Leda and the Swan" by William Butler Yeats
s had lived. Four years after publishing his first work in 1885, he fell in love with Irish patriot Maud Gonne. Although his love was unrequited, it is believed that the writer's entire collection of ... mirror image of Yeats's life. Regardless of Yeats's wish for encompassing love with Irish patriot, Maud Gonne, his love was retuned with nothing but a spiritual love from the young woman. Both shared ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"What will continue to make Yeats' poetry worthy of critical study?"
y will continue to be worthy of critical study.Initially is the poem "When You Are Old", written to Maud Gonne in 1891, following her rejection of Yeats' proposal. From the modalic, definite opening u ... her rejection of Yeats.Taken in a psychoanalytical sense, we see how Yeats describes a future where Maude Gonne will be "old and grey and full of sleep"; an elderly lady, close to death (as the symbol ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats
after their turbulent flight into the sky.Essentially the poem is mainly about is relationship with Maud Gonne. This is not apparent if the reader does not know the background of his relationship with ... is not apparent if the reader does not know the background of his relationship with her. Yeats and Maud Gonne had many things in common: they were both very much interested in literature and the arts ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
The Song of Wandering Aengus
onstant Pursuit for LoveIn The Song of Wandering Aengus, Yeats compares his own unrequited love for Maud Gonne to the Celtic myth of the love god Aengus who searched for years to find the girl he had ... nd how love is very much present within it.Ng 2W.B. Yeats wrote this poem to express his desire for Maud Gonne, a woman he continued to love despite her rejecting him four times. The Song of Wandering ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry