The Epic Elements in Yeats’s Poetry
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One of the marked characteristic features of modernist poetry includes its employment of the epic form, attesting to the fact that modernist poets made efforts to revive the highest and lofty form of poetic writing. And scholars do not hesitate to point to Ezra Pound’s The Cantos and T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland as an example of modernist poems involving epic elements. My argument is that William Butler Yeats also needs to be included among the modernist poets who try to incorporate epic elements in his poems. Although Yeats did not write a poem which can be comparable to The Cantos and The Wasteland, a close examination of many of his poems leads us to see that they also retain some epic features, exemplifying the fact that the poet also looked back to the tradition not only for poetic inspiration but also for literary continuity.
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One of the marked characteristic features of modernist poetry includes its employment of the epic form, attesting to the fact that modernist poets made efforts to revive the highest and lofty form of poetic writing. And scholars do not hesitate to point to Ezra Pound’s The Cantos and T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland as an example of modernist poems involving epic elements. My argument is that William Butler Yeats also needs to be included among the modernist poets who try to incorporate epic elements in his poems. Although Yeats did not write a poem which can be comparable to The Cantos and The Wasteland, a close examination of many of his poems leads us to see that they also retain some epic features, exemplifying the fact that the poet also looked back to the tradition not only for poetic inspiration but also for literary continuity.
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