FREE NOTES: W.B.YEATS
FREE NOTES: MODERN Poetry: W.B. Yeats Question :Discuss Yeats’ growth as a poet with reference to his poetry. or , Discuss the main stages of development of Yeats as a poet. or, Discuss the major themes of Yeats’ poetry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Answer: The poetic career of W. B. Yeats encompasses a relatively prolonged period. During this time, his attitude to life and arts changed considerably. Besides, he saw rapid changes in his own society and in the outside world. All these helped him to be a dynamic artist, the theme and the style of his poetry being under constant evolution. Thus a study of his poetry tends to reveal that his poetic career falls into at least three distinguishable phases. In his early years. Yeats was influenced by the Romantic poets, especially Shelley, and his early verse show considerable elements of romanticism in them. This period of “Celtic Twilight” is marked