Write a short note on Maud Gonne Maud Gonne was an Irish nationalist and political activist She worked for Ireland s freedom She was an important woman in the life of the poet W B Yeats - She was a very beautiful woman Yeats once said that she had a beautiful face and a strong spirit Her beauty and personality left a powerful impression on him She became the inspiration behind many of Yeats s poems W B Yeats loved her deeply However his love was unrequited He proposed to her many times but she always refused Later Maud Gonne married another nationalist Major John MacBride However Gonne s marriage was unhappy and they were separated Many poems of Yeats like A Prayer for My Daughter When You Are Old and No Second Troy are connected to his feelings for her In A Prayer for My Daughter Yeats alludes to