Does anyone else dislike early Yeats? yeah hes a master of form and syntax, that's undeniable...

Does anyone else dislike early Yeats? yeah hes a master of form and syntax, that's undeniable, but his subject matter is horribly cliché. Dude has like six poems about waning love and autumn n shit.

nah, to me hes the perfect bridge between traditional poetry about love/autumn/classical imagery and batshit modernist stuff

Late Yeats is where its at bby

>Dude has like six poems about waning love and autumn n shit.

I agree that early Yeats isn't as good as late Yeats, but God damn I wish this meme would die.

You just described Mallarmé.

well this intrigues me
rec me some yeats poems that will ease me into TS Elliot and Ezra Pound

why is it so bad to mention?

No need to ease, just start with the lovesong of J. Alfred prufrock

Because a poet can choose to write about whatever inspires them. Sure, waning love and autumn n shit have been done many, many, many times before. That doesn't mean anyone, particularly someone of Yeats' stature, doesn't have anything interesting to say about it. Don't dislike it because someone told you it wasn't cool to like poems about waning love and autumn n shit anymore. Anyone who tells you that a poets' subject matter shouldn't be whatever inspires them, doesn't deserve you giving them the time of day to listen to whatever bullshit they have to say.

>Hating on the GOAT
Any Yeats is good Yeats.

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What changed between early Yeats and his stuff published later? When he did change?

I don't care for yeats at all but especially not the early stuff, honey.
He just taps into bland mythological nationalism and substanceless pretty imagery.
Plus he's the ultimate beta cuckold
>trying to fuck maud gonne for years
>putting her in your plays as cathleen no houlihan, beatifil symbol of the olde country
>time goes on, write about her man in political poems, a real man
>one day she bangs you and she instantly regrets it
>marry her daughter.

I know Veeky Forums creeps think that's even better but. No.

Probably when Pound became his secretary

what does that have to do with his poetry? You're the cuck for letting an artist get in the way of your enjoyment of their art.

I said why he didn't like the poetry first. The ad hominem stuff goes without saying on Veeky Forums.

>. Dude has like six poems about waning love and autumn n shit

And what part of your life has been more interesting or more sublime than romantic love or the changing seasons?

oops, meant to quote

>you will never eat roast peacock with Ez and W.B.

I always imagined Robert Plant singing "The Song of Wandering Aengus." early Yeats was basically Led Zeppelin before Led Zeppelin.