Do you recognize where William Butler Yeats came from just by reading his poetry? Yeasts was born in Dublin to a portrait painter John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Pollexfen daughter of a wealthy merchant. Yeats spent his childhood in County Sligo and spent his time exploring the Slough countryside with his father. Yeats was home schooled early on in life during which his mother would tell him of Irish Folktales. William Yeasts was greatly influenced and inspired by his Irish heritage. Yeats had a strong devotion for Ireland and it became his “country at heart”. He also felt as if County Sligo was his childhood and spiritual home. The time that he and his father spent exploring the beauty and nature of Ireland built up a sense of nationalism …show more content…
A publication of Yeats that reflected his interest in Irish Legend and occult is The Celtic Twilight. One quote from The Celtic Twilight that supports the theory of Yeats believing in the legends is “ By the Hospital Lane goes the faeries path. Every evening they travel from the hill to the sea, from the sea to the hill”. The Wanderings of Oisin mentioned earlier was a poem that Yeats wrote inspired by “the lyrics of the Fenian Cycle of Irish Mythology. This was not the first or last poem that he would wright that was inspired by other …show more content…
Yeats looked up to William Blake and described him as a “great artificers of God who uttered great truths to a little clan”. In Yeats poem Song and its Fountain Yeats states “I have never read Hegel, but my mind had been full of Blake since boyhood”. Muad Gonne the love of his life was the woman behind his poem called A Man Young and Old . Gonne and Yeats had a lot in common, in particular Irish nationalism, but even so he could not have her. He described their relationship and feelings about her by writing “She who had brought great Hector down and put all Troy to wreck”. Although a wise man and a broken heart would change his way of writing it was nothing compared to what the effect of Irish politics and Charles Parnell would have on his