One of the guardians of the Demon Hero, Ye Tzu

Yeats (1865-1939), also known as Yeats and Yates, was an Irish poet, playwright, and mystic. Yeats was a leader of the Celtic Revival in Ireland and one of the founders of the Abbey Theatre.

Yeats's early works were still in the flamboyant style of Romanticism, with a knack for creating dreamlike atmospheres, such as his 1893 collection of essays, The Twilight of the Celts.

However, after entering the age of confusion, under the influence of modernist poets such as Izra Pound, especially under the influence of his own personal experience of participating in the Irish nationalist political movement, Yeats's creative style underwent drastic changes and became closer to modernism.

Yeats was not only one of the decision-makers at the Abbey Theatre, but also held the post of Senator of the Irish Parliament. He valued these social duties and was a well-known hard-working man in the Irish Senate.

Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for "expressing the soul of an entire nation with highly artistic and inspired poems". In 1934, he and Rudyard Kipling were jointly awarded the Goldberg Poetry Prize.

Yeats was born in Sandimon, not far from Dublin, the capital of Ireland. His father, John Butler Yeats, was a descendant of Jevis Yeats, a flax merchant. The merchant died in 1712, and his grandson, Benjamin, married Mary Butler, daughter of a noble family in County Kildare.

John Yeats was studying law when he got married, but he soon dropped out. Instead, learn to paint portraits. John's mother (William Butler, Yeats's grandmother), Susan Marie Poleksfin, came from an Anglo-Irish family in Sleigo.

Soon after his birth, Ye Tzu moved to the extended family of Slaigo, and he himself believed that Slaigo County gave birth to his true childhood.

The Butler-Yeats family was a very artistic family. Yeats's older brother Jack later became a well-known painter, while his two sisters, Elizabeth and Susan, both participated in the famous Arts and Crafts Movement.

For the sake of Yeats's father's painting career, Yeats's family later moved to London. At first, Yeats and his siblings were home-educated.

Yeats's mother, who missed her hometown of Slaigo very much, often told her children stories and folklore about her hometown.

In 1877, Wilhelm Yeats entered the Geethoven Primary School, where he studied for four years. However, Wilhelm did not seem to like the experience at Geethoven, and his results were not outstanding. Due to financial difficulties. Yeats's family moved back to Dublin at the end of 1880. At first lived in the city center. Later, it moved to the suburbs of Hoth.

His time at Holce was an important stage of Yeats's development. The surroundings of the Hoth are hills and woods, and according to legend, there are elves haunted by them. Ye Tzu's family hired a female servant, the wife of a fisherman, who knew all kinds of rural legends. The mystical adventures that were narrated were all included in the later publication of Celtic Dawn.

Year 1881. Yeats continued his studies at Dressholm Smith Secondary School in Dublin. His father's studio was near the school. So Yeats spent time there often, and became acquainted with many Dublin City artists and writers.

During this time, Yeats read extensively the works of English writers such as Shakespeare. And to discuss with writers and artists who are much older than him. He graduated from this school in December 1883 and began to write poetry.

In 1885, Yeats published his first poem in the College Dublin Review, as well as an essay entitled The Poems of Sir Simon Figuson.

From 1884 to 1886 he studied at the Metropolitan School of Art on Kildare Street, the forerunner of today's National College of Art and Design in Ireland.

Before he began to write poetry, Ye Tzu had already tried to combine poetry with religious concepts and emotions. Later, describing his childhood, he said, "I think that if there is a strong and compassionate spirit that constitutes the destiny of this world, then we can better understand this destiny through words and phrases that merge the desires of the human heart for this world." 」

Yeats's early poems were often drawn from Irish mythology and folklore, and his language style was influenced by Pre-Raphaelite prose. During this period, Shelley's poems had a great influence on Ye Tzu.

In a later essay on Shelley, Yeats wrote, "I reread Prometheus Unchained. Of all the great writings in the world, it holds a much higher place in my heart than I expected. 」

In his early years, Yeats was also influenced by John Oriare, the famous leader of the Fenia Order in Ireland at that time. Later in his life, the poet said that Oriare was the most "handsome old man" he had ever seen, and that "from Oriare's conversations and the Irish books he lent me or gave me, I had made my life's work." Under Oriare's introduction, Yeats met Douglas Hyde and John Taylor. The former founded the Gaelic Language League in 1893 to preserve and increase the use of the Irish language.

Yeats's first major poem was The Island of Sculpture, a dreamlike parody of Edmund Spencer's poems. The poem was published in the University College Dublin Review and has not been reprinted since.

Yeats's first published work was a pamphlet, Mosada: Dramatized Poems. The article was also published in the University College Dublin Review, and only 100 copies were printed at his father's expense.

After that, he completed the long narrative poem "The Waves of Usin", and in 1889 published a collection of poems, "The Waves of Usin and Other Poems". This is the first work that has not been denied even after Yeats's style has matured, and is based on the legends and myths of ancient Irish warriors.

It took the poet two full years to complete the poem, and the style clearly shows the influence of Ferguson and the Pre-Raphaelites on the poet. To a certain extent, this poem established the thematic style of Yeats's later poems: the pursuit of a life of meditation or the pursuit of a life of action.

The themes of the first eight lyric poems and ballads in this collection are derived from Yeats's youthful imagination of Indians and Arcadian paradises—gods and goddesses, princes and princesses, temples, peacocks and mystical lotus flowers, and so on. There are clear traces of Romanticism and Pre-Raphaelite in the poems.

After "The Waves of Wuxin", Ye Tzu never wrote a long poem again. Most of his other early works were lyric poems on the theme of love or mysteries. As Yeats's works grew to an ever-expanding readership, he became acquainted with many of the most famous writers of the time, including George Bernard Shaw and Wilde.

Yeats's family moved back to London in 1887. In 1890, Yeats and Ernastles co-founded the "Society of Poets". It was a literary group of like-minded poets who met regularly and published their anthologies in 1892 and 1894.

Yeats's early works also include the poetry collections Collected Poems, The Mystic Rose, and The Wind Among the Reeds. In fact, the literary achievements of the "Poets' Society" were not high, and Yeats was almost the only poet who achieved remarkable results.

In 1889, Yeats became acquainted with Miss Edgangang. She was a woman who was passionate about the Irish nationalist movement. Miss Goon admired Yetz's early poem "The Island of Sculpture" very much, and took the initiative to get acquainted with Yeats.

Ye Ci was deeply infatuated with this young lady, and this woman also greatly influenced Ye Ci's later creation and life. After two years of close association, Yitz proposed to Miss Goonang, but was rejected. He then proposed to her three more times, in 1889, 1900 and 1901, all of which he refused. (To be continued......)