ENGLISH SPEECH - W. B. Yeats Josh: Hey John, I recently overheard your son David, talking to my son Peter, with regards to Yeats's poetry. I found his viewpoint rather misinformed. The approach he used seemed somewhat ignorant. I found that he tended to look within the poem to justify Yeats's central thematic concerns rather than evaluate the historical context associated with the period. Theeban: Well, Ryan...good morning to you too. I find my …showed first 75 words of 825 total…

…showed last 75 words of 825 total…reveals the way in which Yeats's poetry reflects the context and conditions of the material world. To begin with, we can see The poem discusses the way in which -<Tab/>Material - 'gold bird' -<Tab/>polars -<Tab/>real vs. ideal -<Tab/>hierarchical "lords and ladies" -<Tab/>Yeat's uses christian imagery