文档介绍：英语诗歌鉴赏论文
Poems of . Yeats: The Rose Themes
1. Introduction
As is known to all, Yeats’s poetic thinki英语诗歌鉴赏论文
Poems of . Yeats: The Rose Themes
1. Introduction
As is known to all, Yeats’s poetic thinking is a complexity 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
and Death
Age
Though a young poet at the time of the composition of The Rose, Yeats is quite preoccupied with themes of aging and mortality. Imagining his old age served as an escape for the young Yeats, who found himself unsuccessful in love and imagined that later in life he would either have won his beloved or his beloved would have come 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) becoming 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 Yea