Yeats Burns And Wordsworth Poems Essay Research

Yeats Burns And Wordsworth Poems Essay, Research Paper

In this assignment I will compare and contrast three poems based on the theme of

love. I will look at .He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven. by W.B Yeats,

Robert Burns. .A Red,Red Rose. and the .Lucy Poems. by Wordsworth. I

will focus on each poet.s tradition and culture, the poet.s use of language

and the similarities and differences between each poem. I will conclude the

assignment with my personal response. .He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven.

was written by W.B Yeats. William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in 1865. He

abandoned his painting career after only three years to pursue a writing career

with lyrics and plays. He eventually developed his own individual style and his

work was known for being particularly .Irish.. He went on writing for the

rest of his life, and eventually died in 1948. In the poem .He Wishes For The

Cloths Of Heaven. W.B Yeats expresses his love for Maud Gonne. Gonne was an

extreme Nationalist who rejected W.B Yeats and eventually married Major John

MacBride in 1903. After this period there is a noticeable change in Yeats.

poetry, perhaps because he realised his dreams of a life with Maud could never

become a reality. In .He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven. the tone is calm

and peaceful, due to the sibilants used, nasal and .L. sounds which combine

to create a dreamlike tone: .Silver light. .Softly. .Embroidered

cloths. To help the tone flow peacefully along there are no exclamation marks,

dashes or monosyllables to interrupt the flow. Yeats creates a soft rhyming

melody and tune, almost like a lullaby. The natural stress in each word helps to

create the rhythm, A B A B C D C D. Yeats. use of language creates very clear

visual images, eg .heaven. has connotations of peace ,serenity, almost a

nirvana. Likewise .embroidered. has connotations of perfection, an infinite

array of colours. Throughout the poem Yeats concentrates on colours, especially

different shades of blues of the sky, representing the passage of time, seasons

changing but that throughout all the changes the sky still remains beautiful yet

unattainable. In the first four lines of the poem Yeats creates a detailed image

of heaven and its perfection and beauty. Through this he states his wishes/ In

the following four lines he reveals what he would do with those wishes. He lays

his soul bare, and shows the depth of his love by declaring his undying love for

Maud Gonne. The only person who deserves such wealth as the heavens, is Maud. If

Yeats were God, and owned the heavens, the only one worthy of receiving them

would be Maud. He elaborates on this by saying even the heavens would only be

good enough for her to walk upon. By stating this, Yeats is exalting his love:

she is like a Goddess and he is undeserving of her. He deems himself unworthy

and humbles himself. In the following line Yeats writes: .But I, being poor,

have only my dreams.. Through this, Yeats suddenly becomes more realistic: he

knows he is not God and he knows he doesn.t own the heavens. The only thing of

value and beauty he owns are his dreams. He has made himself vulnerable by

spreading all his dreams and desires before Maud, and now she must decide if she

will return his love and make his wildest dreams come true, or trample and tear

his cloths and shatter his dreams. The poem ends softly: .Tread softly because

you tread on my dreams.. He is waiting anxiously to see her reaction and is

gently pleading that she will not reject him. Through this last line he is

begging her to be kind: she has his heart and dreams in her hand; she has the

power to decide his fate. This poem is similar to Burns. and Wordsworth.s

poems in many ways. All three sound like a song, a gentle calming lullaby. Each

poem creates visual imagery from nature surrounding them. They are also similar

due to the language used. None of the poems use complex, elaborate, difficult,

language but instead, plain language that is easily understood by all, Burns.

poem also contains some Scots dialect. The three poems are also similar as the

subject of all three poems is love. In both Wordsworth.s and Yeats. poem the

love was unreturned. The most striking thing about .A Red, Red Rose. by

Robert Burns is the ScotS dialect used. Burns was born in 1759, as the son of an

Ayrshire farmer who was an avid reader and helped in his son.s education.

Burns. work is amoung the best loved in the English language possibly because

of the thought and passion he poured into his comic and dramatic poems and

verse, and his sense of humour and skill for satire. Burns could also be thought

of as the saviour of English poetry because of his ability to depict everyday

life in rural Scotland and his use of Scots dialect, this gave English poetry a

new lease of life. He died at the age of thirty seven of rheumatic fever in

Dumfries. In

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