Book Tips - William Butler Yeats
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".
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Selected Poems
Beautiful poetry varying in style from the dreary romantic to the restrained philosophical. An examined life well lived a life well examined.
/Thinley Tharchen, India
/Thinley Tharchen, India
The Second Coming (poem)
The work is an insightful literature, prognostic, biblically alluding, emotive, logical-consequential, humanistic, symbolically political and of timeless validity in its lighting of concepts.
/Chief Conrad Chiedozie, Nigeria
/Chief Conrad Chiedozie, Nigeria
The Wanderings of Oisin
This poem is written fluently and expresses the atmosphere well. He was a master of the use of poetic language. He also uses enchanting alliterations. The topic from Irish mythology is worked out perfect and describes the mythical country, Ireland.
/Khamisha, United States
/Khamisha, United States
The poem is written fluently and expresses the atmosphere well. He was a master of the use of poetic language. He also uses enchanting alliterations. The topic from Irish mythology is worked out well and describes the mythical country, Ireland.
/Marlies, Austria
/Marlies, Austria
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