3. According to M.H.Abrams,
“The term modernism is used to
identify new and distinctive
feature in the subjects, forms,
concept s and style of literature
and other art in the early decades
of the present century.”
4. Modern Age Victorian Age
Reject old forms Acceptance of all forms
Realism Imaginative
Meaninglessness Superficial
Complex Easier
Intellectuality General
Loss of faith Blind faith
5. W.B.Yeats was born in Dublin,
Ireland
Use of Irish mythology and
folklore can b seen in work
In 1923 was awarded with the
Nobel Prize for literature
W.B.Yeats is a symbolist poet
6. W.B.Yeats as a Modern Poet
W.B.Yeats was one of the modern
poet, who Influenced his
contemporaries as well as
successors. By nature, he was a
dreamer, a thinker, who fell under
the spell of the folk-lore and the
superstitions of the Irish peasantry.
7. He felt himself a stranger in the world of
technology and rationalism. He was realistic
poet though his early poetry was not
realistic.
8. Characteristics of Yeats poetry
Obscurity
Occultism
Mysticism
Irish mythology
Use of Symbolism
Theory of Mask
10. Uses of Symbols in Yeats’ poetry
In Yeats’ poetry generally symbols
are of two kinds
Traditional
Personal
11. “Rose” is both a
traditional as well as
a personal symbol
“Rose”, “Swan”,
and “Helen” are key-
symbols in Yeats poetry.
12. There are a lot of other symbols in Yeats’
poetry. So, to sum up, we can say that
Yeats’ use of symbol is complex and rich.
Symbols, indeed, give “Dump things
Voices, and Bodiless things
Bodies” in Yeats’ poetry. The ‘rose’,
the ‘swan’, the ‘tower’, the ‘winding
stairs’ and the ‘spinning tops’ – all
assume a life of their own and speak to
the reader of different things.
13. Unique poet
At the same time, traditional and
modern poet
Started his poetic career as a
romantic poet
Yeats early poetry collapsed in his
later poetry
