cabin of clay wattles and his daily necessities with his hands The poet also imagines the sweet music of birds and insects He feels the rhythm of nature will lull him into peaceful sleep It helps him come in contact with nature so forcefully that he can see the place in his imagination In his mind s eye he imagines the gentle movement of lake water It is in the poet s tongue I will arise and go now for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore While I stand on the roadway or the pavements grey I hear it in the deep heart s core The above quotation is evidence of the Romantic longing of the poet to scrap city life in favor of life around nature Besides the language of this poem is decorative and musical It conforms to the notion of romantic poetry Subjectivity Many of Yeats's poems bring subjective matter from his life A Prayer for My Daughter of the collection of poetry Michael Robartes and the Dancer and Among the School Children are instances of such types of poems Yeats declares his homage to the aristocratic concept of tradition and custom in the first poem The poet wants her daughter to have a husband whose family would admire traditional customs How but in custom and tradition Are innocence and beauty born These lines like beauty tradition and innocence have a romantic tone Among the School Children exemplifies Yeats nostalgia for childhood Again in Easter his sense of nationalism and patriotic fervour is evident Indirectly he also cites his romantic love for Maud Gonne The poet s veneration for Irish National Leaders is untold in this poem He declares that their sacrifice has provided meaning to their life and as a result a terrible beauty is born Hearts with one purpose alone Through summer and winter seem Enchanted to a stone To trouble the living stream The Personal Notion about History and Civilization Yeats puts forward his vision about history and culture in a symbolic term like William Blake Thus in The Second Coming the poet writes Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world Here the poet describes his idea of the decay and defeat of civilization He thinks in the cyclic order of history symbolized by the image of the gyre The idea of disintegration is illustrated by the falcon The poem shows that Yeats's symbols are very often of a personal nature like William Blake's Romantic Search for a Spiritual Home Yeats had a romantic quest for a spiritual home In Sailing to Byzantium of the collection of poetry The Tower he deals with the clash between physicality and spirituality An aged man is but a paltry thing A tattered coat upon a stick unless Soul clap its hands and sing and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress The old men are banned from physical enjoyment like A tattered coat upon a stick Nonetheless they have the unique power to penetrate the soul This is why the poet has drifted to the holy city of Byzantium which is the cultivation of spirituality A sense of romantic melancholy suffuses in the poem and many other poems Other Elements of Romanticism Yeats poetry abounds in classical myth romantic themes and love for nature which drive him to be one of the last romantics Yeats romanticism is not less than that of pure Romantics Instead he is a genius for his versatile viewpoints on writing capacity The significance of romanticism in the history of English poetry is improved once more through him nbsp