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Yeats's Among School Children. (analysis of a William Butler Yeats poem)
From: The Explicator
Date: 19960322
Author:Eaton, Heather Louise
William Butler Yeats manipulates rhyming and cadence to illustrate the imparmanence of beauty and body and how the soul must compensate for this to attain his vision of Unity of Being. 'Among the Children' begins with a sing-song quality representative of childhood then gives way to enjambments and stresses on words such as 'body and soul' as Yeats depicts the romantic recollections of a lover during an aged man's youth and his perceptions of the eventual aging of the children he is observing.
A prosodic explication of Yeats's "Among School Children" reveals a carefully structured link ...
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