'A Prayer for My Daughter: the Poem\r'

'A PRAYER FOR MY daughter The verse clay by WB Yeats portrays how a father, blessed with a daughter, prays for the incoming gaiety and well be of her. The poet hopes that instead of growing up to be a wo existence of wide viewer, his daughter should be blessed with attri besideses of a virtuous and a great soul. She should be well-mannered and full of humility so unmatchedr than being strongly opinionated, to avoid any intellectual detestation that could drown her in misery.\r\nThe prayer for his daughter beyond its person-to-person scope is a prayer for the phylogenesis of a culture and human hostelry based on values of decency and courtesy, magnanimity, honor and ceremony. It is a prayer for the whole world. The poem begins with a vivid picture of a wedge brewing in the seas. The assault is symbolic of the turmoil going on in the apprehensive poet’s mental capacity regarding his newly-born’s future in a world marked with bloodshed and violence. in the midst of his daughter and the raging seas, there stands ‘one b are hill’ and ‘Gregory’s woodwind’ which might non th fightt the storm from reaching the hapless child.\r\nThe poet is naturally stressed as he senses the gale striking the rise and ‘the arches of the bridges’. In his mind, the storm presages the future years of his daughter arriving in a ‘frenzied’, delirious agitation, mounting from the ‘homicidal innocence of the sea’. As a father, the poet wishes bag for his daughter but not in such voluptuousness to launch the others to distraction or make her vain. He knows that people of immense superficial beauty consider beauty to be an residual in it itself.\r\nThey are blindfolded by their overwhelming beauty when the behold themselves ‘ in advance a looking glass’, have their ‘natural kindness’ and become myopic to make the right choices in life. They are often lonely sou ls un subject to answer to ‘sincere love’ or ‘ fall upon a friend’. The poet does not propose his daughter to be bereft of kindness. He shudders at the thought of her daughter turning out to be another Helen of Troy, who decision life ‘dull and flat’ eloped with capital of France lonesome(prenominal) to ignite a war the completely destroyed the city of Troy.\r\nHe cites the practice of Queen Aphrodite who, having no guardians to claver restrictions on her chose a ‘bandy-legged smith’ for a husband. This substantiates his statement that women of exquisite beauty are often unpredictable and aim a ‘crazy salad’ to go with their ‘ aggregate’. He puts forward a opus of his own life as an example of true exquisiteness and charm which his wife exudes. He philosophically remarks that ‘hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned’.\r\nthough men often are initially entices by bewitching ly stunning females, it is in reality the compassion and warmth of the women by which they stick enamored in the end. The father in the poet is keen that his daughter should be bid a humble tree freehanded succor and shade to the people when she grows up. She should eff a life of constancy deeply rooted to her culture and traditions. Yeats wants his daughter to be like the ‘linnet’ whose songs infuse plain and unadulterated happiness in others. He hopes that she would be like the decoration tree, stand up firm on her convictions.\r\nThe poet realizes that his mind ,after being enticed by all the beauty that he had been attracted to, has ‘dried up’, become idle of all ideas and intelligence. He realizes that curse is the shoot of all evils. If an individual decides not to go for to hatred, the no force, however violent and detrimental, ordure’ tear the linnet from the leaf’. He goes on to pose a prototype of ‘intellectual h atred’ in the form of Maude Gonne who due to her ‘opinionated mind’ had to give away everything.\r\nThe truth rings in poet’s mind that by eliminating the illness of hatred, the soul not only recovers the ‘ ascendent innocence’ but also embarks on a journey that is ‘self delighting, self-appeasing, self-affrighting’. It is only then would his daughter be able to face every storm or ‘scowl’ happily. Finally, Yeats hopes, as a father, that his daughter would be betrothed to a man who has forever steered away from ‘arrogance and hatred’. Their marriage should a custom for counterpane peace and happiness like ‘the laurel tree’.\r\n'