There are a great deal of poets in literature that are known for things. The poet WB Yeats was thought to have been one of the best poets of history, He achieved great things, and impacted the world of literature because of his marvelous style, he incorporated life events into his poems, and his exquisite way of describing things.
First of all, WB Yeats had an amazing style. He had a great style because, for example in some of his romance poems he wrote, he used alter egos of himself to describe things and how he felt. Also Influenced by Ezra Pound, his work had more concision while still having amazing topics like irish mythology. What this means is that he talks about very broad and interesting topics while still using little words while still making the reader perceive and understand the text. He also had a great style of writing because Uses romanticism, which is “A movement in literature and the fine arts, beginning in the early nineteenth century, that stressed personal emotion, free play of the imagination, and freedom from
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For example, in the wikipedia it says, “Born into the Anglo irish landowning class”, Yeats was involved in the Celtic Revival, a movement against cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the victorian period of time, “which tried to promote the spirit of native heritage”. Because of this his writing at the top of the century (1800) was about irish mythology and folklore. Also, another example would be that Maud Gonne, a woman he met in 1889. He tried to court her and she was a character in many of his poems. This made some of his poems romantic, some examples of poems are “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, When You Are Old, He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead, Mongan Thinks of his Past Greatness”. These illustrate that WB Yeats liked to use life events to base his poems off of, making the reader also connect to the