Tuesday, 22 May 2012

What is the Yeats poem "Words" about? From the book of poetry The Green Helmet and Other Poems by William Butler Yeats

Every poem
speaks specifically to each reader, but this is how I see the meaning of
the poem.

Yeats (or the speaker) is writing about "writing." He
recalls a time when his "darling" could not understand why he has chosen to be a
writer in a world which he sees so often as "this blind bitter land."


He remembers, too, growing "weary" of the world, especially the sun, which
all life depends on....

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