He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven A RedRed Rose Lucy Poems

theme of love. I will look at ‘He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven’ by W.B

Yeats, Robert Burns’ ‘A Red,Red Rose’ and the ‘Lucy Poems’ by

Wordsworth. I will focus on each poet’s tradition and culture, the poet’s use

of language and the similarities and differences between each poem. I will

conclude the assignment with my personal response.

‘He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven’ was written by W.B Yeats.

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in 1865. He abandoned his

painting career after only three years to pursue a writing career with lyrics

and plays. He eventually developed his own individual style and his work

was known for being particularly ‘Irish’. He went on writing for the rest of

his life, and eventually died in 1948.

In the poem ‘He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven’ W.B Yeats

expresses his love for Maud Gonne. Gonne was an extreme Nationalist who

rejected W.B Yeats and eventually married Major John MacBride in 1903.

After this period there is a noticeable change in Yeats’ poetry, perhaps

because he realised his dreams of a life with Maud could never become a

In ‘He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven’ the tone

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