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Yeats and inspirational woman: Various visions of women in William Butler yeats's poetry
(2016) Al-Rezali, Rand
This paper presents various visions of women in William Butler Yeats's poetry, most of which are related to his beloved Maud Gonne. In his collection of poems, "A Woman Young and Old" (1933), Yeats uses female imagery to express his concern about women's condition and he wants to call attention to women's oppression and their inferior position in contemporary Irish society. Viewed as a whole, one major figure occupies a central place in Yeats's poetry, his beloved Maud Gonne. His personal experiences –his dreams and desires as well as his conflicts -with her lie in the core of his poetic creation. In Yeats's poetic vision, the rose often becomes an embodiment of his beloved, whose influence on his life and art appears to have been rather paradoxical. While the idealistic vision of Maud Gonne as an image of beauty and grace has often motivated the poet and inspired him to achieve the artistic creativity necessary to write his poems, the real image of his beloved has persistently made him suffer and feel frustrated. Yeats expresses his devotion to Maud Gonne through various female images taken from mythology. Inspired by pre-Raphaelite portraits, decadent writers, and female figures in Irish and Greek mythologies, Yeats's vision of unattainable beloved involves images of seduction and destruction represented by goddesses like Helen, Deirdre, Niamh, and Morrigu.