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The Irish "problem" (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) (Grew up…

- - - - People from Scotland, England and Wales encouraged to migrate to Ulster to take over land from which Irish had been removed
  - - - By 1703, less than 5% of Ulster's land was still controlled by Irish Catholics
      - New laws consolidate Protestant, British cultural power by relegationg Catholics to second class citizens
- - - - Father a well konwn painter
  - - - Romantic and Modernist sentiments
      - Ambivalence between liberal and conservative attitudes
      - Cosmopolitan and rular settings
      - Highly formalized structure, but with quirky variations
- - - - Declining vision throughout life
  - - - Irish nationalism seems opposed to a cetain kind of literate existence
      - Protagonist struggles with questions of belongind, identity
      - The narrator also feels estranged from his wife after an admission she makes