A Prayer Fpr My Daughter

A Prayer For My Daughter A Prayer for My Daughter is a rime pen by William Butler Yeats in 1919. This metrical composition is a pray- exchangeable poem. And it generally tells approximately the poets ideas about his girl who is sleeping at the similar time while the poem is existence told. Throughout the poem the Yeats reflects that how he wants his female childs future should be.This essay give analyze the poem under ternion subtitle 1- What does this poem mean, 2- The poetic devices, tomography, rhyming, figures of speech, uptaked in the poem and mood, diction, row, and the structure of the poem, 3- An essay in a feminist point of realise titled What does the poet want his daughter to become . The poet is watching his infant daughter sleep. In the first stanza he starts with describing the setting of the poem. It is stormy outside, thither is a kind of dark and gloomy weather and he prays for her.And he says that he has gloom in his mind and we will understand that w hat gloom is that in his mind. In the second stanza the poet describes the things while he was praying for his daughter. He walks for an hour and nonices the sea-wind hollo upon the tower, under the arches of the bridge, in the elms above the flooded stream. They in all likelihood represent the dreaming of the human beings and they are decisive. They are all about the present things and they block people from thinking about the future events.The defy four lines of the second stanza clearly explain this idea Imagining in demented reverie That the future old age had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, protrude of the homicidal innocence of the sea. In the third stanza he prays for her beauty, just non too much. He considers the beauty as a decisive subdivision for choosing the right person to marry. He emphasizes that too much beauty whitethorn cause her loose the natural kindness thus that might maintain her from finding the heart-revealing intimacy and a true friend.Re lated with the third stanza, the fourth stanza refers to Helen herself, who being chosen found life flat and dull, and in like manner to Aphrodite, the goddess of love, who chose her spouse the cripple, Hephaestus. Helen had much trouble from a fool, the fool is Menelaus, the husband of Helen, whom she deserted in favor of Paris. Whereas Aphrodite suffered from being fatherless, hence without a father to attract her, Yeats intends to be a guiding father to his young daughter. The fifth stanza describes the choice that Yeats came to see as at the very heart of civilized life courtesy.By courtesy he understands a means of being in the knowledge domain that would protect the best of human dignity, art and emotion. And in his prayer for his daughter he wishes that she will learn to survive with grace and dignity in a world turned horrific. He explains that many men squander hopelessly loved well-favored women, and they thought that the women loved them as salutary but they did non. In the sixth stanza he hopes that his daughter will be a flourishing hidden channelise, which is non rebel but kind and happy, but contains her happiness within a particular place.And additionally he wants his daughter to be not argumentative and aggressive, or possibly quite and secure, rooted in star dear perpetual place. When unite with the previous line, the last line clearly defines his hope fro daughter to racy in a victorious life like a cat valium decoration. And the linnet in like manner represents that he wants her thoughts to be a guide for a ethical life for her and her life to be in a good fate. In the seventh stanza he tells about himself a little bit, and we stinker conclude that he also suffered from love and beauty, but he also emphasize that abhorrence is drying and destructive.Thus he asserts that hatred is the worst response one back have in the world. He hopes that his daughter will not have such strong opinions which are the forms of hatred . Then he implies that an intelligent hatred is the worst of hatreds. In this stanza he uses an image Plentys trumpet. It symbolizes the antecedent of the sufficient gifts that will be given, served to his daughter. This part of the poem also accuses the loveliest cleaning lady, Maud Gonne, because of not using properly the gifts given to her and he hopes that her daughter will use them well and sagely.Ninth stanza serves the ideas of Yeats about hatred and recovering of the world. He supports that a woman can heal herself by getting away from hatred and also the world can be purified by avoiding from hatred and diversions. Thus we can recover the innocence and we can be happy still. In the deduction stanza he hopes her daughter to be married in ceremony, of which source is the horn again. He uses the ceremony to symbolize the richness of the horn and the power of the laurel tree. POETIC DEVICESOnomatopoeia (the use of words that sound like the thing that they are describin g) howling, scream, spray, choke, scowl, howl Repetition (saying the akin thing many times) in the ninth stanza self-appeasing, self-delighting, and self-affrighting Alliteration (the use of several words together that begin with the same sound or letter in order to mystify a special effect) howling, and half hid, cradle-hood and coverlid, great gloom, sea-wind scream, being made beautiful, like the linnet, hold like, linnet from the leaf, hatred driven hence, recovers radical, bellows burst, bridegroom capture, find a friend Assonance (similarity in the vowel sounds of words that are block together in a poem)- walked and prayed, young-hour, such-overmuch, trouble- fool, with-meat, yet-that-played, beauty-very, poor-roved, loved-thought-beloved, hidden-tree, dried-late, linnet-leaf, should-scowl, quarter-bowl, hatred-wares, spreading laurel tree. FIGURES OF SPEECH Metaphor- ceremonial occasion is apply for the Plentys horn, custom is used for the spreading laurel tree, li nnet is used for good faith, and laurel is used for having a victorious life Personification- Sea-wind scream-human being, years dancing-human being, frenzied drum- human being, angry wind- human being, Simile- all her thoughts may like the linnet be, may she live like some commonality laurel Juxtaposition- murderous innocence Imagery- The storm is representing the dangerous outside forces, may be the future that she will encounter with soon.The cradle is representing his daughters babyhood. The sea is the source of the wind and logically is the source of future years as well. The murderous innocence is attributed to the sea and represents poets daughter and the outside world which waits for her. He uses the imagery dried for his mind to explain how the bad ideas are rooted in his mind. And also he uses the horn as ceremony and the tree as custom. LANGUAGE, DICTION, MOOD, STRUCTURE The language used in the poem is like the language used in lectures and also prayer. The word may giv es to the poem a pray-like mood. The narrator is the poets himself, and he tells the poem quite personal.He uses I, she, my daughter to make it personalize. The moods of the stanzas are different than the others. But the first stanza has a frightening atmosphere. In the second stanza he is anxious about what will future bring to her, the third one has the same mood but in here he is careful. In the next one he uses classical mythology to usher his obsessions. The fifth one is a little bit more surefooted and hopeful. The sixth one is more cautious and has a negative mood. The seventh is self aware, strong and kind of regretful. And the last three stanzas are written in a happy mood and have hopefulness. The structure of the poem is not complex to analyze.It has 10 stanzas and eight lines each. It was written in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is aabbcddc, and the rhythm is regular. WHAT DOES THE POET WANT HIS DAUGHTER TO BECOME The poem is about William Butler Yeats ideas, and his anxiety about his baby daughters future and life. He wants his daughter to become a woman who is virtuous, wise. He uses the image of his daughter partly to represent his ideal woman. Most of the images that he uses are split of the ideal woman he has in his mind or its opposites. He supports that a woman should be a flourishing hidden tree, who is not well-known but beautiful. She shouldnt be anything but merry. Innocence is beautiful in women, thats why if his daughter keeps her innocence inside and do not abuse it, she will not be affected by the wind. He thinks that too much beauty distorts women, and causes them to destroy the gifts that are given by Horn of Plenty thus he wants his daughter to use the gifts wisely and properly. And he wants his daughter to learn the fact that hearts are make, and the men, who are deceived by just beauty, will notice their mistake later. He wants her daughter not to have strong opinions like hatred, because he thinks that hatred is the worst thing in the world. He hopes she will marry, and her house will be full of customs.