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David Hoffman Explore Yeats’ Love Of Ireland Throughout Yeats’ poetry, he is constantly referring to, with veiled metaphors or otherwise, his home country; Ireland. Yet his love for Ireland is not as simple as it could be. He has criticisms and anxieties for his home country, which are eloquently displayed in his poetry. Despite the complexity of Yeats’ love for Ireland, there are references to his pure adoration of Ireland and its people. In the, …

…for Ireland, and to simplify the complicated political situation. In the same way he saw the peasant as being the key to a simple life, Yeats tries to simplify the present day confusion in politics with his poetry, often unsuccessfully. Yeats’ love for Ireland is multi-faceted and genuine. His adoration for rural Ireland with his view of the idealistic peasant, and its spiritual weather led him to become deeply worried for his country’s future.