• DR. VISHNULOK BIHARI SRIVASTAVA

Morbidity has been a recurring theme in modern poetry from W.B. Yeats down to Ezra Pound. Yeats has written his autobiography ‘The trembling of the veil’, 1955 in which he has thrown sufficient light on his personal life, this is to say, what circumstances made him lonely ,alienated and cut off from the society. Yeats was born in 1960 . He came to love Maud Gonne when he was hardly 22 years old . Maud Gonne was born in 1866. Thus he was one year older than Maud. His love for Maud was one -sided. He offered his proposal for marriage before her half a dozen times in 1891, 1898 ,1991, 1916, and every time his proposal was turned down by Maud. She was married to a military officer named McBride. In 1984 she gave birth to a female child named Isoult Gonne. Funnily enough Yeats offered his proposal of marriage before her which was rightly thwarted. Apart from those love affairs Yeats loved several girls and every time he was disappointed. All these events and many others added to his aloofness and alienation and he often felt like committing suicide. In December 1912, Yeats wrote a poem ‘To A Child Dancing in the Wind’. Obviously this poem was directed towards Isoult. A few lines from this poem are as follows,

MORBIDITY IN THE POETRY OF W.B.YEATS AND T.S.ELIOT

"MORBIDITY IN THE POETRY OF W.B.YEATS AND T.S.ELIOT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.1317-1322, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR180Z085.pdf

"MORBIDITY IN THE POETRY OF W.B.YEATS AND T.S.ELIOT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp1317-1322, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR180Z085.pdf