The Song of Wandering Aengus

The Song of Wandering Aengus is another of Yeats" early poems that places a stamp on his interest in "romantic" Celtic mysticism and myth. However, it is also a poem that invites consideration of his own take on the Romantic tradition . The activities suggested below ask students to consider the way in which Yeats has one foot in a somewhat generic 19th Century poetic tradition, and yet another in something more particular...

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