tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218581868820026673.post2614443377514551644..comments2023-10-24T08:43:04.846-07:00Comments on Literature discussion: A Prayer of My Daughter by WB Yeats - an analysis by Claire WongFyodor Bingoffskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01307485181676259245noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218581868820026673.post-27763143592758721882018-08-05T05:04:31.007-07:002018-08-05T05:04:31.007-07:00very helpful and easy. i loved the way you have ex...very helpful and easy. i loved the way you have explained it. thank you.<br />shailyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14693429694448516597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218581868820026673.post-52068820964733542502015-10-04T04:52:17.273-07:002015-10-04T04:52:17.273-07:00this a nice one ..and if you need more informatio...this a nice one ..and if you need more information about this poem , you can visit this site<br />i hope it can also help you....http://englishlliteraryterms.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-prayer-for-my-daughter-william-butler.html<br /><br />thanks all<br />Krisno Komol Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07128956640833762901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218581868820026673.post-67940516752663771072013-05-02T02:43:56.614-07:002013-05-02T02:43:56.614-07:00Very helpful. Many critics had slammed this poem ...Very helpful. Many critics had slammed this poem for being against "opinions", or for making Yeats urge his daughter to be passive and stationary like a tree. <br />But a closer reader of the poem uncovers that he is actually being a very good parent, he is parenting his daughter not to be a condescending or conceited women when she grows up. <br />"If there's no hatred in a mind, <br />Assault and battery of the wind<br />Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" <br />and in the last stanza he says that may she have a wonderful bridegroom who shall take her to an aristocratic house where all is "accustomed and ceremonious," <br />because he like the aristocratic ways of living in "Coole Park" house where Lady Gregory, an Irish writer and promoter of literature lived, and Yeats was an associate of her's. His own house "Thoor Ballylee" was not far from "Coole Park." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218581868820026673.post-9077395208152913432010-09-17T08:28:41.734-07:002010-09-17T08:28:41.734-07:00What about the analysis of the other stanzas???......What about the analysis of the other stanzas???....Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311373181267247602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218581868820026673.post-59927096490448146892010-09-17T08:27:40.272-07:002010-09-17T08:27:40.272-07:00what about the other stanzas ???...what about the other stanzas ???...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311373181267247602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218581868820026673.post-10925702790823325002010-09-07T09:11:25.198-07:002010-09-07T09:11:25.198-07:00Thank you very much, I owe 90% of my marks of this...Thank you very much, I owe 90% of my marks of this exam to you :DEC_https://www.blogger.com/profile/18262813151969084915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218581868820026673.post-45234426487011173052010-05-09T10:09:31.262-07:002010-05-09T10:09:31.262-07:00i love this poem.it shows a father concern for his...i love this poem.it shows a father concern for his child,he is really bothered about her and her future days.thats what father ought to be.akashihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14583385246889418067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218581868820026673.post-67737020148175239902010-02-03T20:47:10.050-08:002010-02-03T20:47:10.050-08:00Wood is not called wood when it is part of the tre...Wood is not called wood when it is part of the tree. The wood is the dead body. The hill is bare. Robert is dead. The wood is his body, the ashes from his cremation/tombstone. The hill has no trees/no life anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218581868820026673.post-42042100483777361802009-04-21T18:35:00.000-07:002009-04-21T18:35:00.000-07:00Yeats did such an incredibly job conveying his val...Yeats did such an incredibly job conveying his values. He clearly wished his daughter a good life of tradition, innocence, and ceremony. His tone is advisory like, indeed. What a great way to share his wishes, hopes and dreams. I wonder if he may have also intended to spread his own beliefs and values to others by the means of his work. <br />At present day the economy is in recession and people are in turmoil. Where there is chaos, let there be some structure, a means to identify what is important. Let us, our children, and family remain unscarred from negativity, and scowls. <br /> In the poem, Yeats hopes his daughter remain her inner beauty even amid unkindness. I think this is a great universal hope for most men and women today. <br />The words “tradition,” “ceremony” and “innocence” convey a virtuous and pristine life. The poem was quoted in my graduation card. When I first read it, I had no idea that years later I would have very similar aristocratic beliefs. But not the belief that I am superior but the belief of preserving innocence, traditions, and mannerisms.Sarah Bellamonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03345838653337536880noreply@blogger.com