Among School Children

It is wonderful for you to grow and to forget the excitement and feelings of the childhood of school-age children. I met a lot of children long ago and I am sorry to notice that I have lost some miracles to become a child. I was near the sweet booth, looking at the facial expressions of the children, staring at colorful treasures. Their eyes shone, and suddenly their hands became magnets and fascinated by candies. Some people will walk to the booth, grab the sweet things, and then push it into their mouths before they can stop them.

"School - age Children" was published in Ye Zizhi 's Poetry Tower in 1928. It was inspired by visiting Yeats at Watford School in 1926. And that was his official visit as a Senator in Free State in Ireland. During the tour, Yeats looked back at his youth and experience and changed him to "people laughing at the age of 60" (line 8). Through his introspection, the theme of this poem appears: Life is obviously becoming more meaningful when the connection between different experiences is shaped into a unified whole.

Student poetry was written when Ye Zhi was 60 years old, expresses his view on his life and shows a feeling of regret when he remembered. Such introspection supports the idea that "the outcome of life is often unable to meet expectations". The problem of whiteness at the beginning of this verse that drew Yeats established a disgust and disillusionated view. Yeats ask about the place of life. In the "Quattroccento finger fashion it" series this poem is tied to the art of the 50th century and the art of the northern Renaissance. Get up. The finger image on the line may mean an image of idle falling from the top. In the last few rows of Ye Shi, I reviewed Yeats' old age maturity and cyclical view. This is quite different from the early childhood thinking at the beginning of the poem.

Through the main work we have found many of Yeats' great poems, including poetry, drama, critical prose (Oxford World Classic). For further discussion about his work, please see the analysis of Yeats 'school-age children', the summary of 'Sailing to Byzantium', and our view on his 'Innisfree Lake'.