About this document

Yeats by Sr Chandrodaya J is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Yeats was in love with Maud Gonne for many years but she rejected his marriage proposals. This poem was written after she married John MacBride, causing Yeats great distress. In the poem, Yeats compares Gonne to Helen of Troy, who was blamed for starting the Trojan War. Yeats questions why Gonne involved herself in Irish revolutionary politics, believing it was destroying peace. He argues she had a noble spirit but it did not fit the modern age. In the end, Yeats suggests that like Helen burned Troy, Gonne

Author

Sr Chandrodaya J

Language

EN