William Butler Yeats was a very prolific poet who wrote many poems in his lifetime about many different things. I think it is interesting to read the poems he wrote about love, or rather, the loss of it where he expressed a variety of emotions on his journey to understand himself and his true love. Yeats was in desperately in love with a woman named Maud Gonne for several years, but unfortunately, she did not …showed first 75 words of 299 total…

…showed last 75 words of 299 total…of a woman, but also seems to represent again the object of beauty for him, Maud Gonne. He refers to this symbol again in 'The Sorrow of Love' where: A girl arose that had red mournful lips And seemed the greatness of the world in tears It is clear that the feelings Yeats had for Maud helped shape his poems and his struggle with the relationship caused him to write some of his best poems.