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“There is more to Yeats’ poems than just trouble and failure”
“There is more to Yeats’ poems than just trouble and failure”- the statement is partially correct as the poems interpret other themes as well. “When you are old” and “The second coming” are two poems that express trouble and failure in the form of other themes, “when you are old” expresses trouble and failure in the theme of love and age. Love is shown through Yeats’ love for Maud Gonne and age is shown through Maud Gonne as she grows old. “The second coming” expresses trouble and failure in the themes of higher power and history. Higher power is shown through the likes of Jesus and history is shown through the repetitions of the world based on the past.
The theme of love in “when you are old” shows Yeats love for Maud Gonne. The quote “How many loved your moments of glad grace, and loved your beauty with love false or true”, explains to us how beautiful she is and how she was admired because of it. He uses alliteration to describe her beauty as one that is not superficial. Yeats’ explains his love for her with the quote “But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face”, the romantic notion shows Yeats’ love for her is different compared to everyone else, he loved her soul, loves her essence and will even love her when she is old and grey. He loves everything about her, but she does not love him back. This is how trouble and failure within this poem is shown, with all the love he gives and all the heart fulfilled poems he write about and to her, he is still a no body, and his heart is forever crushed.
The theme of age is shown in “when you are old” as Yeats’ gives his thought of what Maud Gonne is going to be like when she is older. He still believes that she will be the most beautiful women even as she ages, this ties together with his love for her with the quote “And loved the sorrows of your changing face” meaning that he will love her when she’s old and not so beautiful, but yet she will still be beautiful to him. Yeats’ set the scene of Maud sitting by a fire place and talking to herself about how she has regret letting her true love escape with the quote “And bending down beside the glowing bars, murmur, a little sadly, how love Fled”. He uses personification to describe himself as love. Yeats’ suggest age as a bad thing with the quote “And slowly read, and dream of the soft look”, as he is using the comparison of her soft beauty of youth and the shadows of old age. He tells us that when Maud grows old she will be sad and depressed because she let Yeats’ go, the only guy to truly love her and that her whole life has failed as she can no longer go back and start over again.

The theme of a higher power in “the second coming” is depicted through the references to WWI, as it was the most horrific war scene Yeats’ ever saw and he thought that there had to be a higher power at hand that could save humanity. Yeats’ describes the world as a lost place because of this war, he uses the quote “Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”, using the oxymoron to describe the revolutionizing of forces that are destroying the world. The quote “Blood-dimed tide is loosed” explains how disturbing and gruesome the war was to Yeats’ and how evil has been let out, which shows the trouble and failure that the world is experiencing. He then has the belief that a “second coming” which is relating to the return of Jesus Christ and that he will be the savior to our wrongs and the savior of our world. The quotes “Rocking cradle and Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” both further reference the return of Jesus and a leader to be born.
The theme of history in “the second coming” is shown through the repetitions of past historical events. This is shown through the first line of the poem, “turning and turning in the widening gyre”, showing that the world is in a spiral that is always repeated, that the world is in reverse and that there is no progress within the world. This links with the idealism of WWI as there has always been war and nothing is learnt from it and this is further explained as WWII follows right after the death of Yeats’. The quote “20 centuries of stone sleep”, refers to 20 centuries ago when the people of Jesus were in a war and it also refers to the return of Jesus, as he was sent down 20 centuries ago to save our sins. This shows that trouble and failure in the past is now also present in today. Yeats’ always thought that the events that happen today were always fixed from past events and that the future was predetermined. In conclusion Yeats’ poems are not more than just trouble and failure, although they can represent other themes but his poems ultimately tell of trouble and failure, in his life and in the world.

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