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Yeats was born in Ireland in June 1865 and he studied at Dublin’s Metropolitan school of art. Yeats is also a very spiritual person and he reflects this with the meanings in his poems. His work with poetry enhances the lives of people today. He was a part of the Protestant, Anglo-Irish group which had power over things such as the economy, politics, the social and cultural life of Ireland. In 1885 Yeats published his first item in the Dublin University Review. This is when Yeats met a man by the name of John O’Leary. O’Leary impacted the topic in Yeats’s writing as he encouraged Yeats to adopt Irish subjects. Many of Yeats poems reflect Irish legends, folklore and songs. He continued to write with an Irish discourse even after he moved to London
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