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Poet: William Butler Yeats
Poem: No Second Troy
Volume: The Green Helmet and Other Poems
Year: Published/Written in 1910
Poem of the Day on:
Jul 30 2007
Comment 1 of 1, added on April 5th, 2006 at 12:36 AM.
No Second Troy is a wonderful poem of W.B Yeats. He opens his words with a question and ends with a question. He opens with "Why should I blame her that she filled my days." And closes with "Was there another Troy for her to burn?" These two questions beg a number of interpretation from the readers. For instance,why should Yeats open and close his poem with questions? What does he mean by the word "blame" in the first line? And, what does he mean by the phrase "second Troy". Does he mean that there would be a "real second war of Troy" if he blame his lover? Who is "she", the one that has filled his days? Is she Helen of Troy whose beauty is able to lauch a thousand ships? Or, Is she Maud Gonne, the one that steal his heart?
This poem is one of Yeats' characteristics of good metrical poems. Like other poems of Yeats, this poem is also grouped in iambic pentameter.The rhyme and rhythm are also interesting to read and to learn.
It might be better for us, readers or learners of literature, to compare this poem with "Leda and the Swan". This poem is also take Greek Mythology. For example, Zeus came to fall in love with Leda and made himself to be a swan and rape Leda.
Imam Machfudi from Indonesia
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No Second Troy is a wonderful poem of W.B Yeats. He opens his words with a question and ends with a question. He opens with "Why should I blame her that she filled my days." And closes with "Was there another Troy for her to burn?" These two questions beg a number of interpretation from the readers. For instance,why should Yeats open and close his poem with questions? What does he mean by the word "blame" in the first line? And, what does he mean by the phrase "second Troy". Does he mean that there would be a "real second war of Troy" if he blame his lover? Who is "she", the one that has filled his days? Is she Helen of Troy whose beauty is able to lauch a thousand ships? Or, Is she Maud Gonne, the one that steal his heart?
This poem is one of Yeats' characteristics of good metrical poems. Like other poems of Yeats, this poem is also grouped in iambic pentameter.The rhyme and rhythm are also interesting to read and to learn.
It might be better for us, readers or learners of literature, to compare this poem with "Leda and the Swan". This poem is also take Greek Mythology. For example, Zeus came to fall in love with Leda and made himself to be a swan and rape Leda.
Imam Machfudi from Indonesia