An Analysis of the Symbols in Yeat’s Poems

In our life, the symbol and its meaning have a big influence on our daily life. Regardless of whether our country is symbolized by the flag, national emblem or our own creed, it is symbolized as a cross or an angel. Because religion has many symbols, the great poet of William Butler has many symbols in his work and poetry. In his numerous poems, Yeats uses different symbols to convey his message to his readers.

Some poets use personal symbols, images, and terminology. For example, Ireland's great poet, William Butler Yeats, used a rotating image to draw time as a spiral. Other regular symbols of Yeats' works include roses and stones. Walt Whitman often symbolizes the night and the ocean. Robert Frost likes esoteric term "in step arches" and uses it in his several poems. Dylan Thomas also likes the word "spindrift". Heartland often uses the adjective "white" in his poetry. William Harmon pointed out that although the word "darkness" is seldom in English literature, it appears in several major poems.

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 Leda and Zeus's sonnets, and our thoughts on his 'Innisfree Lake'.

Yeats' poetry 'fisherman' tells the story that Irish people can not form a unified national identity. Yeats in this poem regret hope and sorrow. Yeats is trying to lay the true meaning of national identity for the people of Ireland. Through this poem, Yeitz showed that it is necessary to look for identities including all people, including the identity of the old Irish / Celtic person. This poem shows that the Irish people are separated from each other, but they are separated from their ancestors (he feels more). After insisting on this in his poetry for years, Yeats in the poem showed his despair that Irish people would not receive such recognition at least for his entire life. Therefore, he felt hope for the unification of the Irish national identity disappeared, and this poem represents sympathy and regret for this ideal.