文档介绍：Poems of . Yeats: The Rose Themes
1. Introduction
As is known to all, Yeats’s poetic thinking is plexity out of a variety of influences and out of his own originality. Therefore, this study of the Yeatsian poetic thinking would focus on a few distinguished aspects;in order to make them coherently interrelated, I employ the metaphorical meanings of the rose, a key Yeatsian symbol, to represent those chosen aspects.
2. Analysis of the Rose Themes
Age and Death
Age
Though a young poet at the time of position of The Rose, Yeats is quite upied with themes of aging and mortality. Imagining his old age served as an escape for the young Yeats, who found himself essful in love and imagined that later in life he would either have won his beloved or his beloved would e to regret her rejection of him. "In Old Age" is particularly marked by the image of an older Maud Gonne (the woman with whom Yeats was in love) ing wiser in old age.
Death
Yeats also had an anxiety about death which was unusual in someone so young. He contemplated death less in terms of himself than in terms of his loved ones. When Maud Gonne travel to France as a convalescent, a worried Yeats wrote "A Dream of Death." This meditation on Gonne's possible death is less of a nightmare than a es true, as Yeats envisions himself being useful to her in death as he could not be in life. Yeats, therefore, vi