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Poetry of William Butler Yeats: Introduction

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Yeats, William Butler

Yeats, William Butler
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Introduction

He sought the intensity of streams,
the foam that seems the will of stones,
the icy rush that is not dreams,
the trees that shape the path like bones . . .

Cold blood, cold blood of mountainsides,
cold blood that swells the shores, cold tides,
what truth has he found Under-Sea?
What blackness, or what clarity?

A.L. Purdy, "W. B. Y., d. 1939"

Background And Childhood:

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in 1865, one of a family of five
children, two girls and three boys (one of whom died in childhood while the
poet's remaining brother ...

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