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W.B.Yeatsisgenerallyconsideredtobeoneofthetwentiethcentury'skeyEnglish-languagepoets.HecanbeconsideredaSymbolistpoetinthatheusedallusiveimageryandsymbolicstructuresthroughouthiscareer.Yeatschooseswordsandputsthemtogethersothatinadditiontoaparticularmeaningtheysuggestothermeaningsthatseemmoresignificant.Hisuseofsymbolsisusuallysomethingphysicalwhichisusedbothtobeitselfandtosuggestother,perhapsimmaterial,timelessqualities.Yet,unlikemostmodernistswhoexperimentedwithfreeverse,Yeatswasalsoamasterofthetraditionalverseforms.Theimpactofmodernismonhisworkcanbeseenintheincreasingabandonmentofthemoreconventionallypoeticdictionofhisearlyworkinfavorofthemoreausterelanguageandmoredirectapproachtohisthemesthatincreasinglycharacterisesthepoetryandplaysofhismiddleperiod,comprisingthevolumesIntheSevenWoods,ResponsibilitiesandTheGreenHelmet.Hislaterpoetryandplaysarewritteninamorepersonalvein,andtheworkswritteninthelasttwentyyearsofhislifeincludementionofhissonanddaughter,aswellasmeditationsontheexperienceofgrowingold.Inhispoem,TheCircusAnimals'Desertion,hedescribestheinspirationfortheselateworks:Nowthatmyladder'sgoneImustliedownwherealltheladdersstartInthefoulragandboneshopoftheheart
- When You Are Old
- What Was Lost
- The Two Trees
- Towards Break Of Day
- To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time
- To A Young Girl
- To A Young Beauty
- The Wisdom Of The King
- The Wild Swans At Coole
- The Wheel
- The Two Trees
- The Tower
- The Three Beggars
- The Stolen Child
- The Song of the Happy Shepherd
- The Shadowy Waters
- The Seven Sages
- The Secret Rose
- The Second Coming
- The Rose Tree
- The Old Age Of Queen Maeve
- The Moods
- The Mask
- The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart
- The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
- The Hosting Of The Sidhe
- The Host Of The Air
- The Harp of Aengus
- The Fish
- The Everlasting Voices
- The Dolls
- The Crucifixion Of The Outcast
- The Black Tower
- The Arrow
- Swifts Epitaph
- Sailing to Byzantium
- O Do Not Love Too Long
- No Second Troy
- Leda And The Swan
- Lapis Lazuli
- King And No King
- In the Seven Woods
- Her Praise
- He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
- Easter, 1916
- Broken Dreams
- Baile And Aillinn
- Against Unworthy Praise
- Aedh Wishes For The Clothes Of Heaven
- A Prayer For My Daughter