William Butler yeats was an Irish poet,playwright.in 1923 he awarded the Nobel prize in literature as a first Irishman so honored for what the Nobel committee describes as "inspired poetry which in a expression to the spirit of the whole nation". The poem was written by yeats when Annie his daughter was a tender infant.it expressed his love and concern for Anne.
A prayer for my Daughter is opens with an image of the child sleeping innocently through howling Strom . The violence of nature seems symbolic of a larger violence .The murderous innocence of the sea is a symbol for that. Yeats praises that his daughter be like her mother rather than like Maud gonne.
First world war just drawn To a trail of death and distraction in Europe. Life is hard for the ordinary people . There was frustration, angst, and dear . He want that his daughter is remove from all things and that is why he worried about his child.
Stanza 1
The innocent little infant Annie is fast a sleep in cradle . The hood of cradel is half covers the cradle. A furious Strom coming from Atlantic ocean. The bare hill and woods bare the burnt of the Strom. Annie is sleep but her father is worried about safety. The Strom as symbol of difficult time and cradel and it's hood are symbol of limited security.
Stanza 2
The poet's sense of gloom deepens. A little later poet sees some light,some respite from traumatic hallucination. He thinks if the day when Annie would grow up. By saying that "future years had come, dancing ti frenzied drum "
Stanza 3
Yeats hope that Annie would grow up to beautiful damsel but he does not like to be a paragone of beauty. In year's view extreme beauty could be harmful for woman. It might make those people distraught who aspire for her hands.
Stanza 4
In this stanza Yeats recounts the fact that Hellenes of Troy and both were immensely beautiful but carried huge load of curse and suffering.there are three reference to ancient Greek mythology. Helen was beautiful woman. She married with Menelaus. She run away with lover who was Trojan prince and because of this bloody war between Greek And Trojan,thus Helen's beauty proved a curse to her and others.
Stanza 5.
This stanza deals with what Yeats determines and that is the womanly quality such as. Curtsy,kindness,civility. He says the man adore a woman who had charm,kindness and gental manners. The poet would like his daughter is learns a manners.woman who are beautiful will not attract a true lovers. The heart of man to be win by. Curtsy and affection. Poet gave his own reference that he fell in love with Maud finned because her beauty. He behaves like a fool and he realizes it is west if time and became wiser and married other woman.
Stanza 6
The poet would like her daughter ti grow like A flourishing tree hidden from a public gaze. He would like her thoughts to be cheerful like a song of birds. He would like her not to get involved any competitive struggle just for sake of fun. He could not like her to get involved in quarrel in jest.
Stanza 7
Here poet thinking of hostility. He does not want that her daughter is barefoot and he want that she does not fail in choosing the person with whom she will friendly.
stanza 8
In this stanza Yeats depicted his feeling relating to woman who reject his love four times and marry macbridge. The poet would like his daughter not to have strong opinion of an intellectual kind because such a intellectual kind lead only to suffering and happiness.
stanza 9
Yeats hope that his daughter becomes as beautiful as Maud tonne. Poet wants that her daughter controlling her mind of all hatred, lead a happy life no matter what the attitude of people towards her.
First world war just drawn To a trail of death and distraction in Europe. Life is hard for the ordinary people . There was frustration, angst, and dear . He want that his daughter is remove from all things and that is why he worried about his child.
Stanza 1
The innocent little infant Annie is fast a sleep in cradle . The hood of cradel is half covers the cradle. A furious Strom coming from Atlantic ocean. The bare hill and woods bare the burnt of the Strom. Annie is sleep but her father is worried about safety. The Strom as symbol of difficult time and cradel and it's hood are symbol of limited security.
Stanza 2
The poet's sense of gloom deepens. A little later poet sees some light,some respite from traumatic hallucination. He thinks if the day when Annie would grow up. By saying that "future years had come, dancing ti frenzied drum "
Stanza 3
Yeats hope that Annie would grow up to beautiful damsel but he does not like to be a paragone of beauty. In year's view extreme beauty could be harmful for woman. It might make those people distraught who aspire for her hands.
Stanza 4
In this stanza Yeats recounts the fact that Hellenes of Troy and both were immensely beautiful but carried huge load of curse and suffering.there are three reference to ancient Greek mythology. Helen was beautiful woman. She married with Menelaus. She run away with lover who was Trojan prince and because of this bloody war between Greek And Trojan,thus Helen's beauty proved a curse to her and others.
Stanza 5.
This stanza deals with what Yeats determines and that is the womanly quality such as. Curtsy,kindness,civility. He says the man adore a woman who had charm,kindness and gental manners. The poet would like his daughter is learns a manners.woman who are beautiful will not attract a true lovers. The heart of man to be win by. Curtsy and affection. Poet gave his own reference that he fell in love with Maud finned because her beauty. He behaves like a fool and he realizes it is west if time and became wiser and married other woman.
Stanza 6
The poet would like her daughter ti grow like A flourishing tree hidden from a public gaze. He would like her thoughts to be cheerful like a song of birds. He would like her not to get involved any competitive struggle just for sake of fun. He could not like her to get involved in quarrel in jest.
Stanza 7
Here poet thinking of hostility. He does not want that her daughter is barefoot and he want that she does not fail in choosing the person with whom she will friendly.
stanza 8
In this stanza Yeats depicted his feeling relating to woman who reject his love four times and marry macbridge. The poet would like his daughter not to have strong opinion of an intellectual kind because such a intellectual kind lead only to suffering and happiness.
stanza 9
Yeats hope that his daughter becomes as beautiful as Maud tonne. Poet wants that her daughter controlling her mind of all hatred, lead a happy life no matter what the attitude of people towards her.
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