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Poems?of?W.B.?Yeats:?The?Rose?Themes? 1.??Introduction?? ?????As?is?known?to?all,?Yeats’s?poetic?thinking?is?a?complexity?out?of?a?variety?of? influences?and?out?of?his?own?originality.?Therefore,?this?study?of?the?Yeatsian?poetic?thinking would focus on a few distinguished aspects，in order to make them coherently ?interrelated,?I?employ?the?metaphorical?meanings?of?the?rose,?a?key?Yeatsian?symbol,?to?represent?those?chosen?aspects.? 2.??Analysis?of?the?Rose?Themes? Though a young poet at the time of the composition of The rose ,Yeats is quite preoccupied ?with?themes?of?aging?and?mortality.?Imagining?his?old?age?served?as?an?escape?for?the?young?Yeats,?who?found?himself?unsuccessful?in?love?and?imagined?that?later?in?life?he?would?either?have?won?his?beloved?or?his?beloved?would?have?come?to?regret?her?rejection?of?him.?In?Old?Age?is?particularly?marked?by?the?image?of?an?older?Maud?Gonne?(the?woman?with?whom?Yeats?was?in?love)?becoming?wiser?in?old?age ?Yeats?also?had?an?anxiety?about?death?which?was?unusual?in?someone?so?young.?He?contemplated?death?less?in?terms?of?himself?than?in?terms?of?his?loved?ones.?When?Maud?Gonne?travel?to?France?as?a?convalescent,?a?worried?Yeats?wrote?A?Dream?of?Death.?This?meditation?on?Gonnes?possible?death?is?less?of?a?nightmare?than?a?dream?comes?true,?as?Yeats?envisions?himself?being?useful?to?her?in?death?as?he?could?not?be?in?life.?Yeats,?therefore,?views?both?aging?and?death?as?more?or?less?positive?forces.? The Rose id rife with mythological references ,from King Fergus to Conchubar to Diarmuid.?Indeed,?such?mythic?Irish?figures?populate?nearly?every?poem?in?the?collection.[1] Mythology operates as a theme in this collection in a number of ways.First and foremost?it?separates?Yeats?poetry?from?British?writing.?British?writers?drew?on?Roman?and?Greek?mythology?-?the?mythology,?in?fact,?of?other?(albeit?ancient)?imperialists.?In?choosing?Irish?mythology?as?his?source?of?allusions?and?subjects,Yeats creates poetry d