The Tower (poem)

The tower ( Origingaltitel: The Tower ) is a poem by Irish poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats. It was formed in 1926 and was published in 1928 with additional poems in the poetry collection The Tower.

As the sail to Byzantium in 1927 resulting Yeats deals with the problems of aging on a spiritual and emotional way.

Design and style

The tower consists of three parts and a total of 19 verses to different Verslänge. Meter and rhyme are free, but both occur repeatedly focused on.

Yeats wrote with one of his most difficult poems The tower, which was partially influenced towards friendship with the modernists Ezra Pound. Free Verse and fragmentary descriptions leave the tower Yeats's transition to modernity.

Content

In the first part of the poem is about the dissatisfaction with the body and the mental state to be more willing than ever to throw themselves into life. It is disabled by the body, although the spirit is still young and willing.

The second part, which represents 13 of the 19 stanzas, is about a way of life movie. The lyrical I go different stories and situations and people through the head.