Comparing The Indian to His Love and The Hosting of the Sidhe Essay

The Indian to His Love and The Hosting of the Sidhe        The Aesthetic Movement, as exemplified by The Indian to His Love, by W. B. Yeats, seems dead and insipid when compared to his The Hosting of the Sidhe.  The images of the two songs are so completely different  that they nearly demand a different set of rules dealing with their creation.  It would be most impossible for Yeats to deal effectively with the subject matter of The Hosting of the Sidhe in the uniform manner as The Indian to His Love because he is viewing the being from a different perspective for each poem.            There is little kin between the characters of The Indian to His Love and those of The Hosting of the Sidhe.  In the former, Yeats deals exclusively with mortals, idealized perhaps, nevertheless nonetheless mortals who must deal with the world as mortals  Here we get out moor our lovely ship/ And wander ever wi th woven hands, and.  How we only of mortals are.  These characters are not only mortals, scarce are anonymous in that they have no personal identities, and there is no representation of them as individuals.  The lovers seem to decorate the scene much as the peahens and the parrot.  Yeats does, however, remind the readers of the characters mortality rate even while he makes them seem timeless.  How when we die our shades testament rove  tells  clearly that those mortals may be in a dream, but even this dream is destined to end.           In The Hosting of the Sidhe, in contrast to The Indian and His Love, Yeats deals with the ... ...e the reader at all.  On the other hand, in The Hosting of the Sidhe, Yeats presents the ideal of flavor  immortals in a real world.  Yeats wants the reader to feel the life in this poem, not just observe it.  The poem reaches out and coaxes Away, come internat ional/ Empty your heart of its mortal dream.  The world Yeats sees in each poem is completely different, and by choosing his words carefully and changing his style of writing, he allows readers to see that difference and to feel it.                                                      handouts   home