A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER In the beginning Yeats talks about the storm having commenced brewing in the seas Between his newly born daughter and the sea there stand a bare hill and Gregorys woods which might not thwart the storm from reaching the helpless infant The father is naturally worried as he senses the gale striking the tower and the undersides of the bridges To his mind the storm presages the future of her daughter having arrived with a rage mounting from the seeming innocence of the sea
Topic Comparative analysis of the W B Yeats s poem The Second Coming W B Yeats wrote The Second Coming in January 1919 while Europe and much of the rest of the world was trying to recover from World War I therefore it is necessary to place the poem in historical context This period was a time when the crisis of the bourgeois world reached its highest point and revolutions took place in several countries in Ireland in Russia in Germany and in Hungary The poem refers to those revolutions but it i