The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats Summary
William Butler Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats Summary

Shepherdappears in First 2 poems of Lyrical segment

In reality there is more than one character. The role of the shepherd occurs more than once, but each time, there is one- typically male who is viewed as

'the shepherd.' In the first poem, the shepherd is a specifically happy one. In the second poem, the shepherd is a sad man. Periodically, during multiple sections of the book, the shepherd as a literary figure comes...

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