A prayer for My daughter

A prayer for my daughter by W.B yeats

   Willam butler yeats was an illustration Irish Irish poet writer and playwright. he was a staunch irish nationalist who continued to espouse this cause  all his life this poem was written by its when Anne was a tender  infant. He express his love and concern for anne. The first world war head just drawn to close leaving earth trail of death and destruction on Europe. Inside Ireland there was a large waves of Irish nationalism and capitalism life was hard in Ireland at that time went , unrest and discontent make life hard for ordinary citizens. There was of frustration against and fear. Yeat did not escape this air if despondency. In this backdrop . This poem for a little baby whom he love so much as he symbolised Ireland as a baby. And England as a nationalist perspective and also he satirised modern civilization.


     The poem start with the description of his daughter as she is sleeping in cradle.  The cradle is symbol for the protection. And Strom symbolised as difficult time. The tone is gloomy, precarious, and frightening, as well as didactic  The poem line is

“ Once more the Strom is howling and half hid under this cardlehood and coverlid my child sleeps on.”

       In this line poet shows worry about his daughter. And he gives advice to her that she faced difficulties in life. There are follow a skilful description of the kind of beauty. It’s not a exclusive beauty. He knows too much beauty in a woman will lead her in danger. He knows fabulous beauty goes with an empty mind. The poet wish and prayers that his daughter maybe granted moderate beauty. The other wish that   his daughter grown up like a laurel tree.

     The poet continues on to comment on his hopes for her beauty: “May she be granted beauty and yet not.” His vacillation is that beauty in women sometimes brings disasters. For example, some such people have a difficult time choosing the right person as a life partner, and neither they can “find a friend.” The speaker lays emphasis on the need for feminine innocence. The poet advances his argument in the next stanzas by citing examples of beautiful women such as Helen of Troy, whose beauty was said to be the cause of the Trojan War. By the end, the poet wants his daughter to be courteous, as love cannot come unconditionally and freely. She must earn love with good efforts and kind-heartedness, and she cannot win it by merely physical beauty because “Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.” Summing up his theme, the poet wishes his daughter to possess such qualities that could help her face the future years confidently and independently.