In five pages this poem analyzes Graves' 'The Chinal Plate,' Thomas's 'Do not go gentle into that good night,' Auden's 'Autumn Song,' Yeats' 'Among School Children,' and Coleridge's 'Dejection: an Ode.' Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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a "lady," comes from a frustrated love affair. Also, the depression that Coleridge suffers also is associated with a break from nature, whose beauty he can see, but no longer
feel (line 38). However, later in the poem, Coleridge suggests that it is through "wedding Nature" that one can a perspective on life wherein joy becomes possible, as Nature can
call forth from the soul a "fair luminous cloud" (line 54) that, one assumes, relieves Coleridges suffering by connecting him with his beloved "lady."
After this hopeful passage, the poet again describes how he fell into depression that robbed him of his "mirth." He pictures the psyche as a lost child who
"screams" in hopes that mother (Nature) will hear (line 105). The poem ends with the poet contemplating his sleepless state at midnight, at which point he implores Sleep to visit
his lady with "wings of healing" (line 128), and joy so that his "Dear Lady" will "evermore rejoice" (line 139). Among School Children by W.B. Yeats The schoolroom setting that
Yeats establishes in the first stanza serves as a backdrop for what, basically, is a contemplation of the cycles of life. The first stanza pictures Yeats as sixty-year-old "public" man
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he dreams of a "Ledaean" body (line 9), which connotes
a beautiful woman and this leads him in third stanza to consider what she might have looked like as a child. He goes on to contemplate in the next stanza,
Yeats even considers himself at a younger age, when he had "pretty plumage" (line 30). He wonders what his mother would think