Yeats’s art and literature began to change over the years. It formed into a cryptic, flowing, and fixed style and structure. These newer plays were intended for a small audience and incorporated masks, dance, and music (Columbia Encyclopedia, 1). A significant influence on these types of plays was the “Japanese Noh” plays. Noh is one type of Japanese performing arts, which combines dance, music, poetry, and drama. Noh originated during the 14th century and is Japan’s oldest traditional form of drama. The performances reflect upon the daily life of the Japa

The beginning of this poem serves to create tension and hesitation within the reader. There are suggestions that the seductive creature of faery may very well be a liar (Ellmam, 2). The world of humanity may not be as terrible as its words make it out to be, while the world of faery may not be as wonderful as the child is led to believe.

The tension previously mentioned creates an emotional impact at the end of the poem. This impact becomes far great if the reader were to infer that the faery spoke the truth. The reader may identify with the child and understand his decision to leave this “weeping” world for something that may not even exist. This is where Yeats’s cryptic and ambiguous style of writing does its job. It leaves the reader with many options to think about.

For three stanzas this magical creature tempts the child, who, in the fourth and final stanza, departs the human world, all “solemn-eyed” (line 46) and full of wonder. In this stanza, a strange shift takes place. Once the child’s allegiance is secured, the speaker reveals some of the magical moments that exist in the human world, moments now eternally lost. The faery makes reference to “the lowing of

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