No Second Troy was about comparing a woman he knows to Helen of Troy. The lady is really beautiful but she is so pretty that she makes everyone lives miserable. "Have taught ignorant men most violent ways" She causes people to fall in love with her and they tortures them because they do not know they are being played. I think that some women feel like they have to do this to men to get their attention, however, I think that it would just make them mad. "Why should I blame her that she filled my days with misery" The guy doesn't even know she is faking her feelings. He thinks its his fault he is sad, not hers.
Who Goes With Fergus? seems like it could be about multiple topics. "Young man, lift up your russet brow, and lift your tender eyelids, maid, and brood on hopes and fear no more." To me this says that when you are in love, you stop thinking so much about your hopes and fears. You tend to think of the other person and your new future. "And no more turn aside and brood upon love's bitter mystery" This poem is trying to get us to stop worrying about finding love and just let life's destiny take its course.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree talked about the saying home is where the heart is. "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree...and live alone in the bee-loud glade...I hear it in the deep heart's core" Even though the main character has to live alone and do all the house chores by himself, he likes the place because it is peaceful and he loves living there. He can tell that this place is his home because his heart tells him.
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Jennifer,
This post, while it offers some interesting perspectives on several of Yeats's poems, is not successful as a work of focused, detailed analysis or interpretation. Your comments seem scattered and not always well grounded in the passages you quote.
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