This paper attempts to look at the development of W.B.Yeats as a poet from the beginning to the later phase of his life the influences he had of people and circumstances in his life and its reflection in his poetry. His symbolism was based upon the poetry of Blake, Shelley and Rosettee. Yeats started his long literary career as a romantic poet and gradually evolved into a modernist poet. His later love poems began to show a certain physicality, not of outrageous kind, but muted and soft.
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