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He died, aged 73, on Januin France and was later buried in Drumcliffe Churchyard, Co Sligo THE STOLEN CHILD In Irish folklore, it was said that fairies sometimes came in the night to steal children from. Come away, O human child To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full. In the poem The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats, he reminds us life as a child is a fantasy world that should be kept a memory because if one tries to.
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Yeats, was born in Dublin, in 1865 and is wildly regarded as one of the influential poets on both the national and international stage.Ī pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he was one of co-founders of the Abbey Theatre and became a Senator in the Irish Free State in 1922. Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water-rats There we've hid our faery vats, Full of berries And of reddest stolen cherries. To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand. William Butler Yeats, more commonly known as, W.B. The main theme of 'The Stolen Child' would suggest the struggle to maintain the innocence of childhood against the realism of having to experience the reality of life – certainly, a theme that transcend the passing of time!
About one century before the famous Irish poet William Butler Yeats had wrote his famous poem The Stolen Child. With a faery, hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than. William Butler Yeats wrote ‘ The Stolen Child’ in 1886 and is considered to be one of his more notable and popular early poems.īased on Irish Legend, 'The Stolen Child' concerns captivating faeries beguiling and charming a young boy to leave the tough modern day ‘weeping world’ and run away to live a more enchanting and mystical life with them. The title is nothing new in Irish literature. Come away, O human child To the waters and the wild.
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