Yeats biography powerpoint presentation rubric

In Memory of W.B. Yeats is an elegy written by W.H. Auden on the death of W.B. Yeats, whom Auden admired and also deeply influenced by him.

The poem is in three sections. In the first section, Auden speaks about the death of the poet and in the second is his personal and compassionate address to the poet and accepts the irreparable loss of the poet. In the final section, Auden sums up the great achievements of Yeats although he had a lot of weaknesses.

Yeats biography powerpoint presentation rubric high school

Time has forgiven him all his weaknesses and failures. Thus “In Memory of W.B.Yeats” is quite different from all other elegies. We cannot see any artificial or laboured in the grief of the poem as in the conventional pastoral elegies.

It has all the quality of a modern civilized man’s expression of grief at the loss of a dear one. Instead Auden skillfully restrains his sorrow and gives a detached account of Yeats’ death when entire was in the grip of cold winter and there was a political paralysis all over the