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Poetry of William Butler Yeats: Responsibilities

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

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

Introduction:

In the ten years between 1910 and 1920 which encompass Responsibilities,
1914, and The Wild Swans at Coole, 1919, Yeats, who had been a brilliant but
still minor poet, became a great poet, the major poet of at least the first
half of our century. "Withering into truth," as he had intended them to, his
now stark, spare and passionate lines were infused in these years with a new
metaphysical intensity. The fanciful symbols of faery and Rose forgotten, the
poet had yet been unable to abandon his central concern with what ...

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