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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,
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The above lines quoted in the question are the opening lines in ‘No Second Troy.’ Published in 1921 in the collection titled The Green Helmet and Other Poems, W.B. Yeats’s this twelve-line poem is the most celebrated poem having a combination of personal and political concerns. The poem begins on a personal plane with a rhetorical questionsaying that Yeats (‘I’ of the poem) should not blame her (Maud Gonne) for filling his life with misery. From here it goes to refer to and comment on the pol...
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In the above five concluding lines of ‘No Second Troy,’ the beautiful revolutionary lady Maud Gonne is seen in terms of destruction. Her beauty is said to be like a tightened bow. Her mind is made simple as a fire of nobleness. Simplicity is not a quality that we associate with fire. Here Yeats seems to suggest how uncompromising intensity and dedicated single-mindedness are capable of being both noble and, in terms of a practical world, naïve (foolish). The tightened bow further suggests an...
Published in 1992 in the collection titled The Green Helment and Other Poems, the twelve-line poem, ‘No Second Troy,’ is the most celebrated, and combines personal passion with political passion. The poem happens to be one of the several poems written by Yeats about his beloved Maud Gonne. This short lyricis half criticism and half tribute to that ...
Though William Butler Yeats’s real interest was in poetry, he also penned play after play with incoherent and fanatic plots, for example; The Islands of Statues, The Seeker, Mosado, etc. But later being sick of this craze of playwriting, he began to explore theosophy, Platonism, Neo-Platonism, and Rosicrucianism. He also took interest in India Phil...
A poem that combines personal and political passions of the poet, who loved and admired Maud Gonne, an Irish revolutionary. The poem questions her beauty, nobility, and violence, and compares her to Helen of Troy, who destroyed her city.
Nov 14, 2020 · Summary of No Second Troy. The poem “No Second Troy” was published in the collection The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910). The subject of the poem is the unrequited love of the poet for Maud Gonne, the beautiful and Irish nationalist firebrand, who he met in 1889, and instantly fell in love with.
Learn about the themes, forms, and devices of William Butler Yeats's poem "No Second Troy", which compares his love for Maud Gonne to Helen of Troy. Explore the allusions to Greek myth, the rhetorical questions, and the poet's personal and political feelings.
At the same time, No Second Troy is a good example of how Yeats was able to use Greek mythology to great advantage for poetic purposes. It remains a masterpiece of controlled rhetoric used to express intense passion in a dramatic and indirect way.
Sep 12, 2023 · ‘No Second Troy,’ a 12-line poem, is written to Maud Gonne, who got married to John MacBride in 1903 to Yeats’ great distress. Yeats was devastated by Maud’s unexpected marriage with John MacBride in February 1903.
Nov 11, 2022 · A poem about the poet's love for Maud Gonne, an Irish revolutionary who rejected him and inspired the Irish revolt against British rule. The poem compares Maud to Helen of Troy and wonders what she would have done if there was another Troy to destroy.
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