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- The influence of modernism on Yeats's poetry style is mainly reflected in the fact that with the passage of time, the poet gradually gave up the traditional poetry writing style in his early works, and his language style became more and more cold and went directly to the theme. This stylistic change in Literary Hall is mainly reflected in his mid-term creations, including the collections "Seven Woods", "Responsibility" and "Green Helmet"
In 1923, Yeats won the Nobel Prize for Literature, which was presented by the King of Sweden himself. Two years later he published a short poem, "The Fertility of Sweden," to express his gratitude.
In 1925, Yeats published a painstaking prose work, Visions, in which he cited the views of Plato, Breton, and several modern philosophers to substantiate his theories of astrology, mysticism, and history.
Yeats met many young modernists through Pound, which made his mid-term poems far away from the style of the early "Celtic Dawn".
His attention to politics is no longer limited to the cultural and political fields he was obsessed with in the early Renaissance. In Yeats's early works, the aristocratic stance deep in his soul is fully reflected. He idealized the life of the Irish common people and deliberately ignored the reality of poverty and weakness of this class.
However, a revolutionary movement initiated by the lower-class Catholics in the city forced Yeats to change his creative attitude.
Ye Cixin's political leanings are reflected in the poem "September 1913". The poem attacks the famous 1913 Dublin General Strike led by James Larkin.
In "Easter 1916", the poet repeatedly chants: Everything has changed/changed completely/but a terrifying beauty has been born. Yeats finally realized that the value of the leaders of the Easter Rising lay in their humble origins and poor lives.
Throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, Yeats was inevitably affected by the unrest in his country and the world at large.
In 1922, Yeats entered the Irish Senate. One of Yeats's major accomplishments during his Senate career was serving as chairman of the Currency Committee. It was this institution that designed Ireland's first currencies after independence.
In 1925, he enthusiastically advocated the legalization of divorce. 1927. Yeats described himself as a public figure in his poem "Among Schoolboys": a smiling celebrity in his sixties. In 1928, Yeats retired from the Senate due to health problems.
Yeats' aristocratic class stance and his close relationship with Pound brought the poet close to Mussolini. He expressed his admiration for the fascist dictator on many occasions.
He even wrote some paeans to fascism, although these were never published. However, when Pablo Neruda invited him to Madrid in 1937, Yeats responded by stating his support for the Spanish Revolution and his opposition to fascism.
Yeats¡¯s political leanings were very ambiguous. He did not support democracy, but in his later years he deliberately distanced himself from Nazism and fascism. However, throughout Yeats's life, he never really accepted or approved of democratic politics. At the same time, he was deeply influenced by the so-called eugenics movement.
After entering old age. Yeats gradually stopped touching on political themes as directly as he did in middle age, and began to write in a more personal style.
He began to write poems for his family and children, sometimes describing his own experiences and emotions about the passage of time and gradual aging. The Great Escape of the Circus Animals, included in his last collection of poems, vividly expresses the source of inspiration for his later works: Now that my stairs have disappeared / I must lie flat where those stairs started.
After 1929, Yeats moved out of Turballerita. Although many of the poet's life memories lie outside Ireland, in 1932 he rented a house in a suburb of Dublin.
In his later years, Yeats was very productive. He published many poetry collections, plays and essays, and many famous poems were written in his later years, including the pinnacle of his life, "Sailing to Byzantium".
This representative poem embodies Yeats' yearning for the ancient and mysterious Eastern civilization. In 1938, Yeats came to the Abbey Theater for the last time to watch the premiere of his play "Inferno". In the same year, he published The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats.
In his later years, Ye Ci suffered from various illnesses, and accompanied by his wife, he went to France to recuperate. However, he eventually died on January 28, 1939 at the Happy Holidays Hotel in Manton, France.
His last poem was "The Black Tower", which was based on the legend of King Arthur. After death. Yeats was originally buried at Rockbroane.
In September 1948, in accordance with the poet's last wish, his body was moved to his hometown of Sligo County. His grave later became an eye-catching attraction in County Sligo. His epitaph is the last sentence of the poet's late work "Beneath the Foothills of the Majestic Mountain": cast a cold eye / look at life, watch Death/Knight. Riding forward! (an, passby!) During his lifetime, Yeats said that Sligo was the place that had the most profound impact on him in his life, so his sculptures and memorials were also located here.
When you are old, gray and sleepy. Take a nap by the fire and take down this book. Read slowly and dream of a moment in your eyes
The soft light and deep shadows emitted;
How many people love your joyful and abundant time, love your beauty, with true or false feelings, only one person loves your pilgrim's heart, and loves the sadness contained in your changing face;
And he leaned over the shining red fence, murmuring with a little sadness, how love escapes and patrols the high mountains above.
And hide his face among the stars.
If I had the brocade of heaven, embroidered with gold and silver, then I would use night and light and twilight
Woven brocade of blue, gray and black,
I will spread them under your feet: but I am very poor and only have dreams; I will spread my dreams under your feet; tread lightly, because you are treading on my dreams.
"Wine enters through the lips, love arises from the eyes; we will only know this truth before we grow old and die." I raise my glass to my lips, I look at you, and I sigh.
I beg - because both the wick and the oil are exhausted
And the channels of the blood are frozen - my dissatisfied heart is satisfied - that cast in a mold of bronze,
Or the beauty revealed in the dazzling marble,
We appear, but when we disappear we disappear again, less caring than a ghost
Our loneliness. O heart, we are old; living beauty is for the younger: we cannot pay the tribute of its wild tears.
¡°Some beautiful and proud consciousness arises¡ªwhen walking, he steps on pretentious steps to commemorate Hamlet, and when the wind blows, his long, loose tie becomes an eternal Byronic figure.¡±
In his later years, he was still very strong but still had the wildness to understand life and death. He also said something surprising: Now I am just a ghost, so I can tell the truth.
Ye Ci¡¯s legendary life ended in a handful of soil in his hometown, leaving behind the words on his epitaph:
An, passby!
It makes people remember endlessly. He looked at the world, life and death with cold eyes, and the knight's horse forward seemed like
With his immortal inspiring spirit, Ye Ci brought great waves to the time with a poet.
To be honest, it is incredible. Perhaps this is the best example of the right person appearing at the right time.
Maybe it¡¯s because of Yeats¡¯s multiple identities (poet, playwright, essayist, senator)
Great influence, in any case, the poet was born at the right time, with his susceptible heart and overflowing
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