Overall synopsis, about author, themes of poem

1. • Parmar Dhatri
• B.A. Sem -6
• A Study Of English Literature.
• Topic : A Prayer for My Daughter by
W.B.Yeats
M.R.R.Monpara Arts College, MKBU.

2. A Prayer For My Daughter
William Butler Yeats
Published : 1921 [ Michael Robartes
and The Dancer]

3. About Poet
W.B.Yeats
Born: 13 June 1865
Died : 28 January 1939
• Irish poet, Dramatist,
Poet.
• Driving force of Irish
literary revival.
• Background : Anglo-
Irish war. World war
1&2.
• Yeats’s complicated
views on Irish
nationalism , sexuality
reflects in poem.
• Nobel prize : 1923.

4. ABOUT POEM
• STRUCTURE
Title
Language
{Prayer or lecture tone}
10 Stanza and 8 lines.
= Iambic pentameter
= ABBCCDDC.
Diction : Poet himself.

5. Overall Synopsis :
• Stanza 1: Mood [ frightening atmosphere]
Describing stormy& gloomy setting while watching daughter.
• Stanza 2: Mood [Anxious for future of daughter]
Sea wind screamed, present things that block to think about future.
• Stanza 3 &4 :
Mood[ Classical mythology to express his obsession]
Praying for beauty but not too much for heart reveling intimacy.
Helen * Aphrodite [Goddess of love]
• Stanza 5: Mood [ Confident & helpful]
Learn to survive with courtesy, grace, dignity.

6. Continue
• Stanza 6 : Mood [ Curious and negative mood]
Flourishing hidden tree (victorious life) stay within the place.
• Stanza 7 : Mood [ Self-aware ,strong, regretful]
Talking about himself, hatred as worst response , avoid to have
strong opinion.
• Stanza 8 : Penty’s horn: source of rich gift, Maud Gonne, be
wise.
• Stanza 9 : Mood [ Happy mood & hopefulness]
One can heal oneself by getting away from hatred. Self-appeasing,
Self-delighting, Self-affrighting.
• Stanza 10 :
Daughter be married in ceremony to symbolize richness of custom.

7. Themes Of The Poem
• Womanhood and traditional femininity.
• The power and danger of beauty.
• The hopes and fears of parentshood.
• Prayer

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