On the Artistic Expressions of When You Are Old by W.B. Yeats

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.146How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Yeats; Maud Gonne; "When You Are Old"; artistic expression; love

Abstract

The thesis can be divided into three parts. Part one is an introduction about Yeats and the poem When You Are Old. The career of Yeats and the background and literary review of the poem are given in this part. In the second part, the brief introduction of artistic expression is given. The third part focuses on the artistic expressions on words' usage and shows their beauty in the poem, such as euphemism, antithesis, emphasis, symbolism. The forth part focuses on the artistic expressions on the structure of the poem, such as imagination, undercurrent and fuzzy reference pro-form. The last part is a conclusion of the whole paper. A summary is given for emphasize the important role of these artistic expressions for expressing emotions.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2017)
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