The Image of Maud Gonne in Yeast’s Selected Poems of The Rose

Abstract

Yeat's love poetry in his first volume The Rose is best understood in close relation to Maud Gonne .He finds in his love with Maud Gonne a cornerstone and a driving force which gains complete hold over his imagination and intellect .This love becomes an indispensable condition for the attainment of an idyllic world and the highest ascension towards an intellectual and ideal vision. As such , it forms the focal point in Yeats's whole existence since it is associated with ideal concepts , beauty , nobility , and his dream of building an idealized world . Maud was an actress, a nationalist and a public figure who was to fit Yeats’s desire to change his whole altitude to life and poetry. Although they shared a passion for Iresh nationalism, Yeats’s was skeptical of her extremist nationalist politics "trapped out" with her