2. William Butler Yeats (/ˈjeɪts/; 13 June 1865 – 28 January
1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of
20th-century literature.
A pillar of both the Irish and British literary
establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish
Senator for two terms.
Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary
Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn,
and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served
as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so
honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as
"inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives
expression to the spirit of a whole nation.
3. Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who
completed their greatest works after being awarded the
Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).
Yeats was a very good friend of American expatriate poet
and Bollingen Prize laureate Ezra Pound. Yeats wrote the
introduction for Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, which
was published by the India Society.
4. This poem is a conversation between a young man and a
young woman. What are they arguing about?
The presented poetry piece "For Anne Gregory" has been
composed by "William Butler Yeats".
The poet has brought out the difference between loving
someone for the external beauty and the inherent inner
beauty
5. This poem is a conversation between a young man and a
young woman.
They were arguing about each other regarding the real
beauty that lies in her.
The poem is written for A. Gregory who might be having
golden hair young man of lies love appearance and not
the real person.
The poet conveys that human beings are incapable of
seeing inner beauty.
They give importance to external or physical beauty.
Only God loves us for ourselves irrespective of what we
are.
6. The poet has brought out the difference between loving
someone for the external beauty and the inherent inner
beauty. The poem can be summarized in following ways:
1. State of despair -
a) The young man says that he has been thrown into a
state of hopelessness by the young woman's great
honey colored ramparts at her ear.
b) Her ear is compared to a rampart or a wall built to
defend a castle, having a broad top with a walk-way.
8. True Love:-
a) The young woman says that she can get a hair-dye and
dye her hair in brown, or black or carrot color.
b) She wants to do so because the young man in despair
may love her for her own sake and not for the yellow
color of her hair.
Love of god:-
a) The young man says that he heard an old religious man
announce solemnly the previous night that he had
found a passage from the holy book to prove that only
God could love the young lady for her own sake and not
for her yellow hair.
