Poetry Speech

ENGLISH SPEECH - W. B. Yeats Josh: Hey John, I recently overheard your son David, talking to my son Peter, with regards to Yeats's poetry. I found his viewpoint rather misinformed. The approach he used seemed somewhat ignorant. I found that he tended to look within the poem to justify Yeats's central thematic concerns rather than evaluate the historical context associated with the period. Theeban: Well, Ryan...good morning to you too. I find my …

…reveals the way in which Yeats's poetry reflects the context and conditions of the material world. To begin with, we can see The poem discusses the way in which -<Tab/>Material - 'gold bird' -<Tab/>polars -<Tab/>real vs. ideal -<Tab/>hierarchical "lords and ladies" -<Tab/>Yeat's uses christian imagery