As part of Yeats’ obsession with history in his poetry, a common idea among many of Yeats’ poems is that the ordinary and seem

The idea of the ordinary and seemingly insignificant is reinforced with imagery of the every day, such as in the passage, “Quiet the dog, tether the pony/To a distant post.” The ideas expressed in “Long Legged Fly” can be linked to “Leda and the Swan” (1924) where the mythical raping of a young girl, Leda, by Zeus in Swan form has huge repercussions on the future. The forced conception of Leda by the swan is a turning point and will have lasting consequences on the future and on a new age. “Long-Legged Fly” is clearly not a purely emotional poem and the unmistakably systematic structure of the poem, indicates that perhaps although all poetry may, on first reading, seem like a page of random emotion, it clearly does involve a number of ideas conveyed through poetic techniques such as imagery. The rhyming scheme of the poem can be described as “a a b b c c d d” and the poem is divided into 3 stanzas each with a repeated couplet.

“Politics” (1939) is another of Yeats’ poems which embodies one of his many re-occurring themes. At first the reader may be troubled at what the actual meaning of the poem is. The title of the poem itself may lead the reader to the false conclusion that the centra

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