W.B. Yeats- His Life and Times
"A poet always writes of his personal life" A person is merely a product of the environment in which they are brought up. This is the strongest influence a person can experience and it shapes them throughout their life. Yeats lived in one of the most turbulent periods in Irish history. The events going on around him shaped Yeats as a man as well as a poet. Yeats had an acute sense of his Irish heritage and found great inspiration in Irish mythology and the supernatural whilst also questioning the validity of the actions on the part of Irish in regards to the English and their continuing conflict. …
