Poem- "A Prayer for My Daughter" by william Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats is the most celebrated Irish poet. He is a poet, dramatist and a prose writer. He also has won noble prize in literary field. His poems in English literature, W.B.Yeats initially love beautiful intelligent women with intensive nature he try his best to win her heart but was rejected. Then he finally married George hayed less. The poem "A prayer for my daughter" has been written by Yeats addressing his daughter Anne Butler Yeats. 

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           The poem start with the stanza that describes the gloomy that is there in the mind of poet for his daughter like any other further W.B.Yeats it also worried about safe and secured future of his daughter. He keeps walking and paying for the young child in the first line of the first stanza there is a word "Strom", which not only described this storm that is outside the house it also stand for the problem of up-coming years. William Butler talks about the future years of his daughter which should be without obstacles.

        In the Second stanza the poet praise for his daughter like around an hour. He mentions about wind of the sea like wind of the same way the situation or the difficulties that will come in his daughters life will also affect not only his daughter but also members around her talks about the future of his daughter. His future years seem to come dancing to the copayment of a drum which is beating franticly. These years are seen by yeats imagination which images out of murderous innocence of the sea. In other words the poet compares innocence of the sea with his innocence of his daughter's life. The sea seems to be innocence but sea is capable of given birth to howling storm, which are capable of talking anyone's life.

         In the Third stanza the very first line suggest wary of Yeats, He prayed to God that

      "May she be granted beauty and yet not beauty to make a stranger eyes, distraught"

       Thus his prayer that God should grant his daughter with beauty but the beauty of his daughter should not distract strangers mind and her beauty should not ruin natural kindness of his daughter. Yeats wants his daughter to process with some qualities so that can be able to face. The future years independently with confidence her beauty should not be of a kind which many either make her proud of her beauty or distract strangers Ming. The result will be that the pride will make her lose all her kind feelings to have excessive beauty is sometimes mind distracting. Because one cannot make right choose out pride of beauty and can never find a friend in the true sense.

       She should not be like those crafty women who employed their charms "To use people to their advantage”. He does not want his daughter to fail in choosing the persons with whom, she will be friendly.

           In the Fourth stanza the poet mention about the Helen of Troy. Who was a very famous for her beauty all around the world she was consider as goddess of beauty and in Greek myths. She was considering the most beautiful women in the world. Who married unknown deserving person by mentioning Helen W.B.Yeats described his worry as his daughter should not fail to choose right man for her. His daughter should marry a person of aristocratic family who may take her to a home, where tradition and ceremony feel the atmosphere. Yeats shudders at the thought of his daughter being another Helen. Who couldn't Helen being unfaithful as she was so beautiful, she had not her further to guide her, and therefore she made a wrong choose instead of marring a handsome man. Yeats virtuous and matching her social standing, she married a fool.

         Poet expresses his grief how a beautiful  women often choose "A crazy salad" undeserving husband to go with their meal [richness of the man]. The poet does not want his daughter to be one such woman.

         In the Fifth stanza the poet worms his daughter to posses the qualities which help her to win peoples heart he wants teach his daughter courtes and he also want to teach his daughter that "Love is earned by those" who are less beautiful than he talks about many foolish man. Who drove around beautiful women and they think that they are loved by their wives but they hardly can see the beneath reality they just get attracted towards outer beauty. The poet wants his daughter to passes both inner and outer beauty because with the passing time you many lose outer beauty but your inner beauty will retell the end. And he also suggest to men not to get attracted by outer beauty.

       In the Six stanza the poet wants his daughter to be like a flourishing three and to grow like a beautiful women and he wants the beauty may stay with her for the rest of life. Her thought should be peaceful, positive and pure like that of a little "linnet bird" like the bird she must not want more than what is natural and normal. She should not find please in quarrel and in chase. She always should feel satisfied with what she has, he wants his daughter to settled down well in one place like "Green laurel".  Therefore this stanza descried the qualities that the poet’s daughter should passes.

         In the Seven stanza the poet mentions about his love once the poet feel love with wrong women. She did not understand loyal and true feeling of the poet and because of that the poet's mind dried up and he also talks about how his heart felled with haltered due to the wrong women he loved. He considers this as evil think than he tells that if there is no haltered in the persons mind, that person will be fortunate abed safe. He wants his daughter to passes the kindnesses that can never allow any evil thing to happen.

             In the Eight stanza the poet talks about intellectual hatred which is the worse think he doesn't want his daughter to become opinionated. He has made a direct contrast between quite nature and opinionated mind. He does not want his daughter to be opinionated as she may lose her loved once out of rigidness. Therefore he prayed to God to bless her with quite nature.

         In the Ninth stanza the poet talks about "Radical innocence". He tells that a  soul become innocent when all anger and hatred has been driven away. And without hatred a women learns to be happy soothed and respect her even when everyone around her goes against her or scowls. She still can be happy and therefore to maintain the "radical innocence" is very important as it soothes your soul.

          In the Last stanza the poet wants his daughter to marry a groom who takes her to a house with custom and ceremony. There should be not space for haltered and arrogance. So, that his daughter can live peacefully and by marrying secured in her house ceremony should be like rich horn and custom should be laurel tree.

           Thus, the poet wishes all the happiness for her daughter and at the same time he wants his daughter to be full of merited.

Theme of poem

                      The poet portrait how a further who has been blessed with a beautiful daughter and he is worried regarding safe and secure future of his daughter. He wants his daughter to be women with d beauty and required innocence. So, that she can have "True friends around her" and can have right life partner to spend life with.