Include- His art dualities, conflicting tensions, desires, appearance, living purposes Question: Through its portrayal of human experience, Years poetry reinforces the significance of desire” To what extent does your interpretation of Years poetry support this view? Yeats pursuit to retain permanence for age and love, and the cultural impacts of the Irish revolution around him are the universal tensions and desires reflected in his poetry. ;The Wild Swan’s at Cooled” and “Easter 1916” unifies the Longstanding of life complexities and also its contradictions; the “beauty’ of life, et still the cruel existence of suffering.
Yeats poetry, intends to release emotions beyond earthly bounds and provides insight of relating as a human being, and ultimately leaving behind a legacy, his art, to underpin the importance of desire. Humanity’s ungraspable longing for a sense of permanence such for beauty, aging and love, acquires tones of both contemplation and despair such seen In The Wild Swans At Cooled This reception of despondency Is portrayed in the juxtaposition by the ;sore heart- of an “aging poet”, with the “brilliant creatures” whose ;hearts have to grown old”.
In addition to this physical pain, It Is the sense of loss that glasses humanity desire for something that Is lasting. Yeats clearly admires the nature; especially the “autumn beauty, as he “counts” his ;nineteenth” one. The water Imagery throughout described as detailed observations of ;brimming” and his careful observations of the swans displays his meditation and appreciation through nature, but then echoes his new towards their beauty and apparent Immortality being different to helmets.
Yeats Fife develops symbolically as a ‘Woodland path”- eventually becoming metaphorically “dry’ and miserable. This portrays a sense to reflection as time passes, looking back, showing that Yeats “unwearied still” holds onto his desire to love, despite already knowing is inequitable as it has metaphorically ‘talon away’. The threadlike setting to the swans paddling the “twilight… Waters”, yet “mirror[ingle a still sky creates a magical environment: allowing us to emphasis his yearning for a miracle for love neither of “passion or conquest”.
Whomever, beauty is to always just from inner reflections of personal desires, The political poem- Easter 1916 exposes the Irish beauty, passion and their longing for proper reverence. With difference from the previous poem being more pensive, the tonality of this is more to condemn the “needless deaths” for the Irish revolution. Yeats as in Irish has experienced the racial unjust, speaking “polite meaningless words” in fear of the English who allegorically has “stone of the heart” demands.
Hence, he understands the pain of his people living a symbolic -“too long [of] a sacrificed” life without being able to achieve the same respect they desire have like any other England citizen. There Is a sustained tone of tension enhanced by the “fast three beat pulse” Imitating a Intense military march; to pose Integrity for this uprising at ;Easter 1916% Whilst having the solemn mood developed, Yeats cleverly weaves In the dally lives of his friends anonymously as ;that woman.. His man” to underlie that most Irish, Including himself desired for a symbolic ;casual comedy’ -normal life, Instead of the war. There he “woman” he describes “young and beautiful” represents his unrequited lover “Maude Gonne” who was the wife of a Republican leader “McBride” back then. Yeats despised their relationship as Maude lives “in ignorant good will”, but himself figuratively -“hearts with one purpose alone”. The complexity of life, desires and the effort to transcend time all come in dualities and are only reprehensible deep and abstract from art; Yeats poems- The Wild Swans at Cooled.
The “Swans” -Yeats viewed as the epitome of beauty and youth is oratorical, as he hyperbolically spent “nineteen autumns… Count[ins]” them, this heightens humans refutable self when confronted with the power of love. Additionally, the poem then celebrates the natural grace of the swans as they figuratively “drift on the still water”, so “mysterious” and comforting, but in reality, this apparent tranquility is broken having Yeats inevitable unrequited love life, the harsh civil war and Irish revolution revolving around him.
Ironically, it is also this unreturned love, which allows Yeats to turn his “cold”, bitter years into companionable” ones and where he acquires the emotional power to leave behind these legacy of poems, that explore humans complex emotions in the very form of art. Yeats strives for perfection for both life and art; the alliterative “bell-beat” swan wings and the constant sestets of the poem depict his aspiration for a rhythmic steady life.
However he is never satisfied; as “before [he] had well finished”, everything wheels symbolically “in great broken rings”, underlying that there is no perfection. Although nothing is faultless, it is through Yeats wretched experiences- diphtheria at the “twilight” of his life, which allows his art to speak for itself. The constant repetition of “still” and the regular rhymes evokes the art’s “immortality’ as compared to human mortality of aging; art transcend time, providing the appearance for which all humans desire.
Yeats’ Easter 1916 continues to prove the existence of dualities, contradictions and their representations in the powerful form of art. Revolutionary movement and political ideas are embedded in all of the 4 stanzas except the 3rd; a Juxtaposed stanza on pure nature. In The Wild Swans at Cooled, Yeats clearly wanted to transcend time or else cherish every minute, however, Easter sass’s third stanza emphasizes by repetition the inevitable fact of nature changing “minute by minute” as a side note implying the inevitability of the revolution too.
In a sense, Yeats support the Irish independence revolt, but then is drawn back by his disapproval of violence by his rhetoric “when may it suffice? ” Dualities also apply to Yeats personally, although McBride is alluded to as a “vainglorious lout” who had “done most bitter wrong” to Maude, he still “write out in a verse” commemorating his death- “Macdonald and McBride” showing that Yeats most wants the stability of a nation, without “needless deaths”.
With the revolution around him, Yeats understands nature wouldn’t be the same anymore, having the symbolic “stone in the midst of it all”, blocking out its “beauty’. As a result to this, the repeated refrain, the “terrible beauty is born”; this oxymoron combines Yeats’ emotional admiration for beauty whilst also his hate for the revolution that “changed [it] utterly’. This strong sense of disapproval is Juxtaposed to the lyrical ballad form of this poem, Yeats number” everyone “in the song”, in this art, which expresses his emotions for the representation for humanity ultimate desires for appearance.
It is through Yeats’ experiences and writing, which allows him to notate the universally complex emotions in the very form of art; transcending time through the recording in history as time passes. Whilst our desire for appearance in age, love and beauty cannot be perfectly fulfilled, Yeats art is an evocative meditation telling us to let go of some ungraspable desires and to actually cherish every moment of our life.
