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1、Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose Themes 1. Introduction As is known to all, Yeats’s poetic thinking is a complexity out of a variety of influences and out of his own originality. Therefore, this study of the Yeatsian poetic thinkingwouldfocusonafewdi
2、stinguishedaspects，inordertomakethemcoherently interrelated, I employ the metaphorical meanings of the rose, a key Yeatsian symbol, to represent those chosen aspects. 2. Analysis of the Rose Themes ThoughayoungpoetatthetimeofthecompositionofTherose,Yeat
3、sisquitepreoccupied with themes of aging and mortality. Imagining his old age served as an escape for the young Yeats, who found himself unsuccessful in love and imagined that later in life he would either have won his beloved or his beloved would have c
4、ome to regret her rejection of him. "In Old Age" is particularly marked by the image of an older Maud Gonne (the woman with whom Yeats was in love) becoming wiser in old age Yeats also had an anxiety about death which was unusual in someone so young. He
5、contemplated death less in terms of himself than in terms of his loved ones. When Maud Gonne travel to France as a convalescent, a worried Yeats wrote "A Dream of Death." This meditation on Gonne's possible death is less of a nightmare than a dream comes
6、 true, as Yeats envisions himself being useful to her in death as he could not be in life. Yeats, therefore, views both aging and death as more or less positive forces. TheRoseidrifewithmythologicalreferences,fromKingFergustoConchubartoDiarmuid. Indeed,
7、such mythic Irish figures populate nearly every poem in the collection.[1]Mythologyoperatesasathemeinthiscollectioninanumberofways.Firstandforemost it separates Yeats' poetry from British writing. British writers drew on Roman and Greek mythology - the m
8、ythology, in fact, of other (albeit ancient) imperialists. In choosing Irish mythology as his source of allusions and subjects,YeatscreatespoetrydistinctfromthatofIreland’slongtimeoppressors.Moreover,Yeats’useofIrishmythol
