No Second Troy
William Butler Yeats * Track #31 On Responsibilities and Other Poems
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No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats
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Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
Or hurled the little streets upon the great,
Had they but courage equal to desire?
What could have made her peaceful with a mind
That nobleness made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind
That is not natural in an age like this,
Being high and solitary and most stern?
Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?
No Second Troy Q&A
Who wrote No Second Troy's ?
No Second Troy was written by William Butler Yeats.
Tone of the poem
The tone could best be described as somber resignation. The speaker realizes that human beings are all subject, in some varying degree, to the historical epoch they emerge on the scene of and will ply their character, will, desire, and passion using the tools available to one of their dispensation a...
What kind of misery is in the poem ?is it romsntic ,political or both?
The speaker realizes that human beings are all subject, in some varying degree, to the historical epoch they emerge on the scene of and will ply their character, will, desire, and passion using the tools available to one of their dispensation and station in life. Thus, the misery is post romantic (p...
Why did the author comared his belovedvwith helen of troy?
The speaker’s tone is more resigned to the realization that there are archetypes or “sorts of folk” which are present in all eras, the Helen Type of a universal nature–yet, in the motley mechanization of the present day, the speaker comments and privately despairs that men’s resolve, courage an desi...