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English / No second troy by WB YEATS
« on: October 09, 2010, 03:33:01 AM »
Some discussion about No second troy by WB YEATS
Aspects of No Second Troy:
Some aspects of No Second troy are given below....................
1. Yeats main theme is that he is trying to to come to terms with the fact that Maud Gonne did not love him like alover but rather like a friend. He is forgiving her,although she did nothing, for being so beautiful that he could not fail to love her. Yeats, realising he was silly to love, wrote her a poem which describes her as a leader of simply men unworthy of her. "Had they but courage equal to desire?"which Yeats believe they didn't possess because he believe them to be"ignorant men".
He describe her beauty and features in this poem comparing to Helen:"Was there another Troy for her to burn?" His other references to her feature were "With beauty like a tightened bow,a kind that is not natural in an age like this " describes the beauty but war like side to her with the description of a "tightened bow".
"Or hurled the little streets upon the great"-Yeats believed that Maud Gonne would lead revolution by leading Ireland (little streets) against the great nations(Britain).
"nobleness made simple as fire"- gave her an image of quite outer person with burning passion for Nationalism and the pursuit of Nationalism.
2. Yeats rhymes at the end of every second sentences:
"Why should I blamed her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways
Or hurled the little streets upon the great".
All of these rhyming words are all the same in saying except for the last three lines:
"Being and solitary and most stern?
Why, what could she have done, being what she is ?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?
The rhyming of stern and burn is the only is the only failure of Yeats rhyme scheme
Aspects of No Second Troy:
Some aspects of No Second troy are given below....................
1. Yeats main theme is that he is trying to to come to terms with the fact that Maud Gonne did not love him like alover but rather like a friend. He is forgiving her,although she did nothing, for being so beautiful that he could not fail to love her. Yeats, realising he was silly to love, wrote her a poem which describes her as a leader of simply men unworthy of her. "Had they but courage equal to desire?"which Yeats believe they didn't possess because he believe them to be"ignorant men".
He describe her beauty and features in this poem comparing to Helen:"Was there another Troy for her to burn?" His other references to her feature were "With beauty like a tightened bow,a kind that is not natural in an age like this " describes the beauty but war like side to her with the description of a "tightened bow".
"Or hurled the little streets upon the great"-Yeats believed that Maud Gonne would lead revolution by leading Ireland (little streets) against the great nations(Britain).
"nobleness made simple as fire"- gave her an image of quite outer person with burning passion for Nationalism and the pursuit of Nationalism.
2. Yeats rhymes at the end of every second sentences:
"Why should I blamed her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways
Or hurled the little streets upon the great".
All of these rhyming words are all the same in saying except for the last three lines:
"Being and solitary and most stern?
Why, what could she have done, being what she is ?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?
The rhyming of stern and burn is the only is the only failure of Yeats rhyme scheme