This Presentation is a part of group presentation. This presentation is on the poet W. B. Yeats and his poems. This is presented in The Department of English, M.K.B.U.

1. W. B. Yeats’s
Poems
Prepared by :-
Payal Bambhaniya
Aarti Sarvaiya
Mansi Gujadiya

2. • Introduction of The 20th Century
• Characteristics of The 20th Century
• About W. B. Yeats
• His writing style and Themes of Poems
• His Major Poems
• About His Poem The Second Coming and
• On Being Asked for War Poem
• Conclusion
Points to ponder :-

3. • The 20 century was like no time period before it. Einstein ,Darwin , Freud and
Marx were just some of the thinkers who profoundly changed Western culture.
• The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era:
Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear weapons, nuclear
power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and
post-Cold War conflicts, and technological advances.
• These reshaped the political and social structure of the globe.
Introduction of The 20th Century
:-

4. 1. Imperialism
2. Social Unrest
3. Anxiety and Interrogation
4. Art for Art’s sake
Characteristics of the Age :-

5. 1. Imperialism :-
• The contemporary society can be characterized as demonstrating a new form of the
Marxist nation of imperialism and as media imperialism.
• According to Lenin’s , five characteristics of imperialism
1. The role of economic concentration
2. The dominance of finance capital
3. The importance of capital export.
4. The spatial stratification of the world as result of corporate dominance.
5. The political dimension of the spatial stratification of the world.
• The results demonstrate that Lenin’s theories should be reloaded for contemporary
media and communication studies.

6. 2. Social Unrest :-
1. Civil Rights Movement
● This movement in the United States has been
a long primarily nonviolent struggle to bring
full civil rights and equality to all American.
2. World War

7. • Karl Marx spent much of his life developing an economic
analysis that explains the inherent instability of capitalism
and provides a scientific basis for the development of the
socialist working class movement.
• Darwin has interested us in the history of Nature’s
Technology. Darwinism consists in their following out the
theory of evolution.
3. Anxiety and Interrogation
:-

8. ● Art for art’s sake, a slogan translated from the French l’art pour l’art, which was
coined in the early 19th century by the French philosopher Victor Cousin.
● The phrase expresses the belief held by many writers and artists, especially those
associated with Aestheticism, that art needs no justification, that it need serve no
political, didactic, or other end.
4. Art for Art’s sake :-

9. Poets and writers
:-
George Bernard
Shaw
Robert Frost James Joyce
Joseph Conrad George Orwell E. M. Forster
John
Galsworthy
William Butler
Yeats
Henry James
Toni Morrison Samuel Beckett Virginia Woolf

16. On Being Asked For A War Poem
Key Facts :-
❏ Poet :- William Butler Yeats
❏ Title :- On Being Asked For A War Poem
❏ Published :- 6 February,1915
❏ Genre :- Political War Poem
❏ Time. :- Beginning of The First World War
❏ Asked by :- Henry James & Edith Wharton
❏ Style of Writing :- Iambic Pentameter, Sextet
❏ Tone :- Ironical Tone

17. Analysis of the Poem
:-
❏ It’s one of Yeats’s shortest well-known poems, comprising just six lines, and sets
out why Yeats chooses not to write a ‘war poem’ for publication.
❏ The poem was first published in Edith Wharton's ‘The Book of the Homeless’
in 1916 as "A Reason for Keeping Silent". When it was later reprinted in The
Wild Swans at Coole, the title was changed to "On being asked for a War
Poem".
❏ The poem says that it is not the place of a poet to write about politics, but that the
poet instead should limit his interference in the world to pleasing his companions.

18. Rhyming Scheme & Rhyming Words of The
Poem :-
1. Rhyming Scheme :- ABC-ABC
1. Rhyming Words :-
➔ These - Please
➔ Truth - Youth
➔ Right - Night

19. Figures Of Speech :-
1. Enjambment :- the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a
line, couplet, or stanza..
e.g., ‘I think it better…a poet’s mouth be silent’.
1. Metonymy :- In a Metonymy ,One word is substituted for another word which is
associated with it.
e.g., ‘A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth’

20. Conclusion :-
❏ To Sum up,it can be easily said that the auto-biography of W.B.Yeats is
vividly reflected in his poems.
❏ We find almost all cultures and traditions as well as history of Irish People
in his poems
❏ As his career developed and literary innovations came with modernism in
the early decades of the twentieth century, Yeats’s work retained its focus on
traditional verse forms and rhyme schemes, but he became more political,
more allusive, and more elliptical.

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● Pannekoek, Anton. “Marxism and Darwinism / by Anton Pannekoek ;
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● “Civil Rights.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.,
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