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laura_365 's review for:
The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
by W.B. Yeats
Reading a full book of poetry by the same poet really gave me an insight into how Yeats’ poetry is constructed. I found it fascinating how his poetry seems to embody many of the features of Romantic poetry - beautiful imagery, an appreciation for nature, a focus on the relationship between the world and the individual - whilst also having modernist features. Several poems in the collection also focused on WW1 (one of my favourites was ‘On Being Asked for a War Poem’) and it really did feel like a wonderful insight into the transition between Romanticism and modernism. It was also a powerful reminder that neither period is as disconnected from our present as it might be tempting to presume!