The Life of William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats is a famous Irish poet, yet as a student he did not do so well in his Math and English course. During his education, it was known that he did remarkably poor in mathematics and language as student. Is that surprising that a well-known poet, such as William, to be a poet if he did not do well in language? As being a famous poet for what he is known for now, one must expect that he would succeed well in just category. However, not everyone success was built on success. The life of William Butler Yeats, from his childhood years, to early life, and later life made him the person who people has known him as of now, a famous Irish poet. On June 13, 1865, William Butler Yeats was born in county Dublin located in Ireland. During his childhood years he was mainly with his grandparents in the county Sligo. William is a son of John Butler Yeats, a lawyer who then turned to become a portrait painter and Susan Mary Pollexfen, daughter of a wealthy family from county Sligo (1). At first his father wanted to be lawyer, John Butler was studying law at the time of his marriage but left the study and moved to England in 1876, where he earned fame as a great painter. His life ended in 1922. William Butler's siblings, his brother Jack maintain his father's artistic talents, becoming one of the most regarded painter and his two sisters Elizabeth and Susan became members of the Arts and Crafts Movement. (2) William’s religion was a Protestant. He was a member of the Church of Ireland, which is an independent province of the Anglican Communion and was rather called as "Protestants" rather than Anglicans that distinguish them from the Catholics of Ireland and also from the Anglicans of England. (3) January 26 1877, William Yeats a... ... middle of paper ... ... loves her so much and trusts her with his future. This individual holds his dreams and what happens to those dreams in her hands. Her actions will depend on whether or not his dreams come true. She has the power to make or break those dreams. The speaker hopes she will “tread softly,” and be careful with his dreams. (A Poet for his Beloved, 57) Works Cited CITATION 1. Yeats, W. B. ed. Fisher T. Unwin. Poems. London: 1992 2. Yeats, W. B. A Poet to His Beloved: The Early Love Poems of William Butler Yeats. New York: 1985. 3. Hone, Joseph M. W.B. Yeats, 1865-1939. Macmillian: 1962 4. “William Butler Yeats.” Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., 2014. Web. 09 May 2014. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/652421/William-Butler-Yeats 5. “William Butler Yeats.” http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-butler-yeats

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