2.  Writer,
 dramatist,
 founder of the Abbey Theatre,
the greatest modern poet writing in English

3. A towering figure in Irish literature,
William Butler Yeats' long and
influential career spanned a time of
enormous political change. A visionary
poet of huge imagination and technical
virtuosity,

4. Poet of love, lore and land

5. maintained his cultural roots, featuring
Irish legends and heroes in many of his
poems and plays.

8.  a famous patriot

9.  first met the love of
his life, Maud Gonne,
in 1889. For him she
symbolized the spirit
of tragic beauty and
Irish nationalism. the
inspiration for his
love poetry, who he
described as "the
troubling of my life"

11. "When I first wrote I went here and there for my
subjects as my reading led me, and preferred to
all other countries Arcadia and the India of
romance, but presently I convinced myself ...
that I should never go for the scenery of a
poem to any country but my own, and I think
that I shall hold to that conviction to the end."

19. Sailing to Byzantine

21. To A Shade

25. Easter 1916

27. The second coming

29. Easter 1916

33.  Time
 Nature
 Binary opposites
 Relation between art and politics
 The Impact of Fate and the Divine on History
 The Transition from Romanticism to
Modernism
 Destruction
 Unrequited Lust

34.  The gyre
 The Swan
 The Great Beast
 Fishing
 The Moon

37. . He belonged to the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority
that had controlled the economic, political, social, and
cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the
seventeenth century.
.adhering to his self-image as an artist

39. “some of the most beautiful poetry”
W H AUDEN

40.  “ he bothers you with the suggestion that if you
have managed to do one kind of poem in your
own way, you should cast off that way and
face into another area of your experience until
you have learned a new voice to say that area
properly”
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978,

41. O body swayed to music, o brightening
glance
How can we know the dancer from the
dance?