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Poem, Prayer

A PLEA FOR MY OWN DAUGHTER The poem simply by WB Yeats portrays how a father, blessed with a girl, prays for the future happiness and wellbeing of her. The poet hopes that instead of growing about be a girl of immense beauty, his daughter must be blessed with attributes of a virtuous and a great soul. She needs to be well-mannered and full of humbleness rather than getting strongly give out your opinion to someone else, to avoid any intellectual detestation that could block her in misery.

The plea for his daughter further than its personal scope is actually a prayer to get the development of a traditions and man society based upon values of decency and courtesy, magnanimity, innocence and ceremony. It is a prayer for the entire world. The poem begins with a brilliant picture of the storm preparing in the oceans. The thunderstorm is emblematic of the uncertainty going on in the apprehensive poet’s mind with regards to his newly-born’s future within a world marked with bloodshed and violence. Between his daughter as well as the raging seas, there stands ‘one uncovered hill’ and ‘Gregory’s wood’ which might not thwart the storm via reaching the hapless child.

The poet is naturally worried as he senses the gale stunning the tower system and ‘the arches of the bridges’. In the mind, the storm presages the future a lot of his girl arriving in a ‘frenzied’, delirious agitation, mounting from the ‘murderous innocence from the sea’. As a father, the poet wants beauty to get his little girl but not in such voluptuousness to engross the others to distraction or perhaps make her vain. This individual knows that persons of huge superficial natural beauty consider splendor to be an end in this itself.

They can be blindfolded by way of a overwhelming natural beauty when the see themselves ‘before a looking glass’, reduce their ‘natural kindness’ and turn inadequate to help make the right alternatives in life. They are usually lonely spirits unable to respond to ‘sincere love’ or ‘find a friend’. The poet person does not desire his daughter to be bereft of closeness. He shudders at the thought of her little girl turning out to be one other Helen of Troy, who also finding life ‘dull and flat’ eloped with Rome only to fire up a conflict the completely destroyed the city of Troy.

He cites the sort of Queen Aphrodite who, having no adults to inflict restrictions on her behalf chose a ‘bandy-legged smith’ for any husband. This substantiates his statement that women of beautiful beauty tend to be unpredictable and choose a ‘crazy salad’ to select their ‘meat’. He places forward a slice of his individual life as one example of the case exquisiteness and charm which usually his wife exudes. This individual philosophically comments that ‘hearts are not experienced as a present but hearts are earned’.

Though guys often happen to be initially entices by bewitchingly stunning females, it is really the compassion and warmth from the women through which they receive enamored eventually. The father inside the poet is usually keen that his child should be just like a humble shrub giving succor and color to the people when ever she gets older. She will need to live a life of constancy deeply rooted to her culture and traditions. Yeats wants his daughter to be like the ‘linnet’ whose music infuse pure and unadulterated happiness in others. He hopes that she would end up like the lauro tree, position firm onto her convictions.

The poet understands that his mind, after being enticed by all the beauty that he had recently been attracted to, provides ‘dried up’, become exhausted of all ideas and intelligence. He realizes that hate is the most severe of all evils. If an person decides never to succumb to hate, the zero force, on the other hand violent and detrimental, can’ tear the linnet from your leaf’. This individual goes on to provide a paradigm of ‘intellectual hatred’ in the form of Maude Gonne who also due to her ‘opinionated mind’ had to offer everything.

The truth rings in poet’s brain that through the elimination of the malady of hatred, the soul not only recovers the ‘radical innocence’ yet also sails on a trip that is ‘self delighting, self-appeasing, self-affrighting’. It is only then might his child be able to confront every storm or ‘scowl’ happily. Finally, Yeats hopes, as a father, that his daughter will be betrothed to a man that has forever steered away from ‘arrogance and hatred’. Their marriage should a custom intended for spreading serenity and joy like ‘the laurel tree’.

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