Visions of Ireland in W. B. Yeats's Early Works

W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, born in Dublin in 1865. This thesis will explore how Yeats´s vision of Ireland changed over time. While his work were greatly influenced by Celticism, his early poetry was more interested in myths and folklore, while his later works were more explicitly political. The first chapter of this thesis deals with Ýeats´s early works in which he creates a utopian Ireland, an imaginary and magical world that was his sanctuary. The second chapter shows Yeats´s transition from a romantic to a modernist poet. The chosen poems show Yeats´s arch of political activity and how, in relation to some earlier works, his later ones show more ambiguity and vagueness