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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright born in 1865 in Dublin, Ireland.
Biography • William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin into an Irish Protestant family.
The document discusses the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats and how politicians have increasingly referenced and alluded to the poem in.

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William Butler Yeats By Nicole

1. William Butler Yeats By:Nicole

2. Born………… • W.B Yeats was born on the 13th of June, 1865.

3. Died……… •William Butler Yeats died in Roguebrune, France.

4. Buried………. •William Butler Yeats is buried in Drumcliff Cemetery,Sligo •On his grave, William Butler Yeats says “Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horsemen pass by”

5. Occupation • William Butler Yeats is a poet and a playwright

6. Famous for….. • William Butler Yeats is famous for writing great poems and writing amazing scripts for plays I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

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William butler yeats

1. Week Eighteen William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) ‘The Second Coming’

2. The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

3. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

4. Source: “ What W. B. Yeats’s ‘Second Com

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W. B. Yeats and His Poems

W. B. Yeats and His Poems

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) • An Irish poet, drew wisdom and inspiration from the ancient culture of Ireland. In his later years he found a metaphysical approach to poetry and wrote on the great, eternal subjects of time and change, love and age, life and art (“The Wild Swans at Coole”). There is profound beauty in his poetry.

Acknowledged as one of the greatest poets in the English language, Yeats’s work covered 50 years. • He was deep-rooted in Irish culture with its folklore, legends, music and magic, from which he draw wisdom and inspiration and he wrote about the traditions and history of the Irish nation. (He was active in the Irish struggle for independence and the founding of a national Irish theatre).

Born in Dublin influenced by the currents of Irish nationalism • With a fellow Irishman Oscar Wilde he organized the Rhymer’s club • In 1899 fell desperately in love with Maud Gonne a beautiful actress and passionate Irish nationalist who refused to marry him and she is the subject of most of his lo