W.B.YEATS

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NAME: William Butler Yeats JOB: Poet BIRTH DATE: June 13, 1865 DEATH DATE: January 28, 1939 PLACE OF BIRTH: Dublin, Ireland PLACE OF DEATH: Menton, France

EARLY YEARS

W.B.Yeats had three siblings Jack, Elizabeth and Lily Yeats. His parents were Susan Pollexten and John Butler Yeats. W.B.Yeats went to Metropolitan School of Art. When Yeats was two his family moved to London. In 1880 his family moved back to Dublin.

GROWING UPHolidays

His first poem was published in 1887. he called it The Wanderings of Oisín. W.B.Yeasts was recognised as an amazing poet

His First PoemEvery year his family would go to Sligo. They lived there in 1872 and 1874.

POEMSWHERE dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats; There we've hid our faery vats, Full of berrys And of reddest stolen cherries.

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light,

Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is

full of troubles And anxious in its sleep. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

WIFE AND CHILDREN

Yeats proposed to Georgia Hyde-Lees in 1917 and she said yes. They were married on 20 October. They had two children Anne and Michael.

NOBEL PRIZE

In December 1923, Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

PICTURES OF W.B.YEATS

By AIDAN BRAZIL