W.B Yeats- Quotes

Key Themes of the Lake Isle of Innisfree

Identity, description, yearning

Lake Isle - Identity

“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree”

Lake Isle- Description

“Of clay and wattles made”, “bee-loud glade”, “lake water lapping”

Lake Isle- Yearning

“I hear it in the deep hearts’s core”

Themes of September 1913

Identity, Politics, description

1913- Identity

“Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone…”, “Some woman’s yellow hair”, “the wild geese spread”

1913- Politics

“Add the halfpence to the pence, and prayer to shivering prayer”

Easter 1916 Key elements?

Identity, politics and change (personal and societal)

1916- identity

“Wherever green is worn”

1916- Politics

“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart”, “that woman”, “This (other) man”

1916- change (personal)

“I have passed with a nod of the head…I write it out in a verse”

1916- Change (Irish)

“All changed, changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born”

An Irish Airman Foresees his Death- Key elements?

Identity, politics, contrast, yearning

Irish Airman- Identity

“My county is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor”

Irish Airman- Politics

“No likely end could bring them loss or leave them happier than before”

Irish Airman- Contrast/Antithesis

“Those I fight I do not hate, those I guard I do not love”

The Wild Swans at Coole- Key elements?

Yearning, description, change

Wild Swans- Yearning

“Great broken rings Upon their clamorous wings”

Wild Swans- description

“Nine-and-fifty”, “and now my heart is sore”

Wild Swans- change

“The nineteenth autumn has come upon me since I first made my count”

Sailing to Byzantium- Key elements?

History, identity, politics

Sailing- history

“But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths wake”

Sailing- identity

“Once out of nature shall never take my bodily form from any natural thing”

Sailing- Political

“That is no country for old men”