W.B. Yeats

When I began reading the first couple poems that were assigned to us, I felt as though yeats was very alone and almost depressed. Almost as though he has been hurt by someone he loved or lost his spouse. But then I came upon the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus". This poem shows a light shining through, a sense of happiness that I did not feel in the poems before it. Yeats writes about how a "glimmering girl, with apple blossoms in her hair" called out his name. The words he chose to use in that sentence alone give a reader such a vivid picture in their head not only of what this girl looks like but the way he is feeling about her as well. The poem then reads on that "she ran into the brightened air" as if she is playful and almost flirty. As you read on it states that he although he is not at a prime age he will search  for this girl and "kiss her lips and take her hands and walk among the dappled grass". He simply paints such a happy picture in my head of what it will be like when he finds this girl and the excitement he will feel.


There is one other poem I would like to point out by Mr. Yeats. "He wishes for the Clothes of Heaven". As you all have read it talks about how if he could have he heavens embroidered cloths that he would spread them under your feet. The next lines goes on "But I, being poor, have only my dreams, I have spread my dreams under your feet; tead softly because you tred on my dreams". This is so powerful to me. This is so much more than a dream to make clothes in heaven. Yeats is telling someone that if he could he would give this person the world but because he can't he has laid everything he has right infront of this person to do with as they please. This includes his dreams and I can say that this is my new favorite quote,"tread softly becuase you tread on my dreams". This person that he is giving his life, his dreams to, could quite frankly ruin it all and I find it so passionate that he is willing to take the chance. The quote alone leaves a lasting impression in my mind just as I hope it will in yours.