Thursday, March 24, 2011

English Trip :)

Today, all TY's headed into town for an English/Art/History trip? We went to the WB Yeats Museum, Bog Bodies and saw some of JB Yeats.'s paintings. They were all really interesting, and I learned alot about WB Yeats. His life was very weird :O
His father was an artist and wanted his children to be artists as well but WB Yeats always found that his passion was poetry. It was also said that Yeats was maybe dyslexic? Alot of Yeats' poetry revolves around a woman called Maud Gonne, whom he had a serious obsession with and proposed to her roughly 10 times. Each time, she rejected him :( Maud Gonne had a daughter, which Yeats never knew about because she had always told him she was her niece. When he finally found out that she was, infact Mauds daughter, he proposed to her! o.O
Eventually, Yeats married a woman named Georgie Hyde-Lees. They had two kids together, even though Yeats had many affairs with other women, and spent the first few days of their honeymoon writing love letters to Maud Gonne :O But they stayed married :)

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