William Butler Yeats (English: William Butler Yeats,1865 June13-19391October 28th), also known as "Ye Zhi" and "Yates", is an Irish poet, playwright and mystic. Ye Zhi is the leader of Irish Celtic Renaissance and one of the founders of Abbey Theatre. Ye Zhi's early works still have gorgeous romantic style, and he is good at creating a fantastic atmosphere. For example, his 1893 collection of essays "Dusk in Celtic" belongs to this style. However, after entering the unquestionable era, under the influence of modernist poet Pound and others, especially under the influence of Irish nationalist political movement that he experienced personally, Ye Zhi's creative style has undergone more intense changes, which is closer to modernism.
Ye Zhi was born in Sandmont, not far from Dublin, the Irish capital, and was the son of a portrait painter. His childhood was spent in Dublin and London respectively, and his grandfather's real estate industry was in sligo County. Ye Zhi studied painting in his early years, was a young member of London artists and writers' group, and paid attention to regular yellow books. He wrote the poetic drama Mossad (1886); Ushin's Wandering (1899); He wrote four other works before returning to Ireland in 1896. His father "john butler Ye Zhi" is a descendant of jervis Ye Zhi, a linen merchant. This businessman died in 17 12, and his grandson Benjamin married Mary Butler, the daughter of a noble family in kildare. John Ye Zhi was studying law when he got married, but he soon dropped out of school to study portrait painting. His mother (that is, William Butler Yeats's grandmother) Susan Mary Polesfin comes from an English-Irish family in Sligo County. Shortly after his birth, he moved to a big family in sligo, and he always thought that Sligo County gave birth to his real childhood. The Butler-Ye Zhi family is a very artistic family. The poet's brother Jack later became a famous painter, while his two sisters Elizabeth (not the Queen) and Susan both took part in the famous "Arts and Crafts Movement".
Ye Zhi was interested in mysticism and idealism all his life. 1885, Ye Zhi and some friends established the Order of Dolphin Hermes. The organization held its first meeting on June 6, 2006, with Ye Zhi as its chairman. In the same year, under the organization of the psychic Brahman Mosini Satri, the Theological Association Museum was officially opened. The following year, Ye Zhi attended his first seance. Since then, Ye Zhi has been addicted to alchemy and theism. 1890 joined the mysterious order of golden dawn and became the leader of 1900. After their marriage, Ye Zhi and his wife tried to write unconsciously, which was all the rage at that time. Ye Zhi's mysticism is particularly evident in his famous poem Rita and the Swan. This short poem, based on Greek mythology, tells the story of Zeus turning into a swan, combining with the beautiful Rita and giving birth to two daughters (one is the famous Helen, which triggered the Trojan War; One is Clytaemestra, Agamemnon's wife and commander of the Greek army. This motif appears repeatedly in western literary and artistic works. Western critics have different interpretations of Ye Zhi's original intention of creating this masterpiece. Some people think that "the root of historical changes lies in sex and war", while others think that "history is the result of the interaction between human creativity and destructive power" In the history of mainstream western literature, Rita and Swan are regarded as symbolic works of symbolic poetry.