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Article: Poetry of William Butler Yeats: The Green Helmet
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Yeats, William Butler
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Green Helmet
Introduction:
The Green Helmet continues in the mood and manner of In the Seven Woods.
Like the earlier volume, it deals mostly with the pain of what the poet was
later to call his "barren passion" for Maud Gonne, but his style has now
evolved even further into a kind of stripped precision of bitterness, as
though the fever of rejected love had dried up all that earlier dreamy
lushness, leaving only the bones of poetry. Thus most of the verses have
short, terse, sinewy lines-tensely and intensely conversational-probably more
a result of Yeats' play-writing than of his passion.
Play-writing and "theatrical business," too, had ...