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The twelve-line poem, ‘No Second Troy,’ is addressed to Maud Gonne, who, to Yeats’s great distress, married John MacBride in 1903. Read Poem.
No Second Troy. By William Butler Yeats. Why should I blame her that she filled my days. With misery, or that she would of late. Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire? What could have made her peaceful with a mind. That nobleness made simple as a fire,
William Butler Yeats’s poem “No Second Troy” is composed of four sentences, each of them a question, and is shaped into twelve lines of iambic pentameter. The poem is a typical lyric in that it...
Technical analysis of No Second Troy literary devices and the technique of William Butler Yeats.
“No Second Troy,” by William Butler Yeats, was first published as part of the 1910 collection Green Helmet and Other Poems. Composed after decades of Yeats’s unrequited love for Maud Gonne, “No Second Troy” evokes the mythological Trojan War and the figure of Helen of Troy to depict love as a battlefield .
Nov 11, 2022 · “No Second Troy’ by WB Yeats is a twelve line poem that was written in the memory of poet’s lover Maud Gonne. Maud Gonne was a beautiful Irish revolutionary, who is the subject of many of Yeats’s poems.
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Analysis: “No Second Troy”. “No Second Troy” builds on a number of tensions between the speaker and his unnamed female love interest. The key tension that this analysis investigates is that between the speaker’s passive questioning and the unnamed woman’s active mind and beauty.
