Abstract
This research article focuses on W. B. Yeats' poetry from the feminist perspective taking the ideas of Simone De Beauvoir and Elaine Showalter. This paper observes that W. B. Yeats has supported women issues in his poetry. His poetry presents the women‘s pathetic condition in patriarchal society and sometimes his poetry gives rebellious character to the women. Despite being a male, Yeats has able to suspend male ego in many of his poem. He believes that for the better world men and women should have equality. In this research paper I have selected W.B Yeats' poems entitled The Living Beauty, A Prayer for My Daughter, Leda and the Swan, The lady's First Song, The Heart of the Women, That Crazy Girl, The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love and “Crazy Jane Talks with Bishop to analyze with feminist perspective . In the selected poems, Yeats raises the voice of women who are suppressed by patriarchy. As a qualitative research, this researcher has purposively selected the poems of W. B Yeats and analyzed them by applying feminism as a tool.
Highlights
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature
Yeats was born and educated in Dublin, but spent his childhood in County Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century
Patriarchy assumes that women are inherently inferior to men and must be always subordinate to them
Summary
B. Yeats has supported women issues in his poetry. Yeats has able to suspend male ego in many of his poem. He believes that for the better world men and women should have equality. In this research paper I have selected W.B Yeats' poems entitled "The Living Beauty", "A Prayer for My Daughter", "Leda and the Swan", "The lady's First Song", "The Heart of the Women", "That Crazy Girl", "The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love" and “Crazy Jane Talks with Bishop" to analyze with feminist perspective. Yeats raises the voice of women who are suppressed by patriarchy.
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