William Butler Yeats was a poet and writer, a quite good one at that; but, all poets have a place where they grow up and find a sense of the world that is also contributed in their poetry or writing and for Yeats that was Ireland. The way his poetry is constructed has a lot to do with his childhood, where he would go as a child, places he would see and the nostalgia he possessed from that as he got older. The sense of adventure and loss, as well as, love with Maud Gonne. Maud Gonne was someone who was very important in Yeats’ life, he was madly in love with this particular human being. His poetry proves that is so. Gonne was not only someone that he loved, she was also someone that made him who he was, they liked similar things and Gonne loved him—it is assumed she did—almost as much as he loved her, assumingly. Most of the history …show more content…
It was something that he always felt he should have done, maybe apart of them thought Gonne would still be with him if they did. Yeats wrote countless poems for Gonne such as, “The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love” and “When You are Old” are just two amongst the many he has written for his true love. Yeats asked Gonne more than a handful of times to marry him and she rejected him each time (1891-1901), for her own personal reasons. The thing Gonne was she was quite hypercritical, she didn’t believe in marriage, which is understandable as to why she denied him. She also thought sexual love was unfulfilling as well and should only exist for procreation. Gonne was secretive, she said one thing and it is unsure if she even believed that herself. She actually ended up marrying John MacBride, after denying Yeats for so long. Before that Yeats and Gonne did marry, not actually, but in spirituality they did. Yeats took this seriously, but Gonne didn’t and went off to marry MacBride; which, caused Yeats to write no poetry for almost five