W.b.yeats as a modern poet

W.b.Yeats as a modern poet

1. W.B.Yeats as a modern poet Presenters: Sidra

2. Modernism According to M.H.Abrams, “The term modernism is used to identify new and distinctive feature in the subjects, forms, concept s and style of literature and other art in the early decades of the present century.”

3. Characteristics of Modern Age Modern Age Victorian Age Reject old forms Acceptance of all forms Realism Imaginative Meaninglessness Superficial Complex Easier Intellectuality General Loss of faith Blind faith

4. Biographical Information: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) W.B.Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland Use of Irish mythology and folklore can b seen in work In 1923 was awarded with the Nobel Prize for literature W.B.Yeats is a symbolist poet

5. W.B.Yeats as a Modern Poet W.B.Yeats was one of the modern poet, who Influenced his contemporaries as well as successors. By nature, he was a dreamer, a thinker, who fell under the spell of the folk-lore and the superstitions of the Irish peasantry.

6. He felt himself a stranger in the world of technology and rationalism. He was realistic poet though his early poetry was not realistic.

7. Characteristics of Yeats poetry Obscurity Occultism Mysticism Irish mythology Use of Symbolism Theory of Mask

8. Characteristics of Yeats poetry Juxtaposition Pessimism Humanism Stark Naked Brutality Bluntness

9. Uses of Symbols in Yeats’ poetry In Yeats’ poetry generally symbols are of two kinds Traditional Personal

10. “Rose” is both a traditional as well as a personal symbol “Rose” ,  “Swan” , and  “Helen”  are key-symbols in Yeats poetry.

11. There are a lot of other symbols in Yeats’ poetry. So, to sum up, we can say that Yeats’ use of symbol is complex and rich. Symbols, indeed, give  “Dump things Voices, and Bodiless things Bodies ”  in Yeats’ poetry. The  ‘rose’ , the   ‘swan’ , the  ‘tower’ , the  ‘winding stairs’  and the   ‘spinning tops’  – all assume a life of their own and speak to the reader of different things.

12. Conclusion Unique poet At the same time, traditional and modern poet Started his poetic career as a romantic poet Yeats early poetry collapsed in his later poetry