Yeats’s Self-Projection in “A Prayer for My Daughter”
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“A Prayer for My Daughter” has been read as one of the most famous poems about daughters in literary history. But is the daughter the true subject of the poem? This paper answers the question by rereading the poem from the perspective of Yeats’s self-projection, discovering a layer of subtext in “A Prayer for My Daughter” about Yeats’s own past, present and future, about his anxiety of aging and about his seeking for wisdom and transcendence through art under the explicit text about the father figure’s expectations on his daughter’s future.
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“A Prayer for My Daughter” has been read as one of the most famous poems about daughters in literary history. But is the daughter the true subject of the poem? This paper answers the question by rereading the poem from the perspective of Yeats’s self-projection, discovering a layer of subtext in “A Prayer for My Daughter” about Yeats’s own past, present and future, about his anxiety of aging and about his seeking for wisdom and transcendence through art under the explicit text about the father figure’s expectations on his daughter’s future.
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