Yeats as an Irish national...?

It was under the influence of John O'Leaty, a Fenian leader that Yeats developed an interest in Irish nationalism, read Irish 8 patriotic literature and joined a young Ireland Society.

He had an ambition to write a new kind of Irish poetry and developed a style of his own when he began to write about the scenery of Sligo where he lived as a child. As an Irishman, Yeats was passionately attached to his country by ties of ancestors and pride in his country's history and legends but he was gradually disillusioned when he felt thatthe violence and hatred by the Irish political leaders was a meanness of Ans impact o belief th only the trapped systems spirit, a kind of selfishness and lack of breeding which was poisoning other. T the heroic Irish nobility. In 1896 Yeats joined the Irish Republic ther. TI Brotherhood, a political party and became pre-occupied for two years the essea can pen with an attempt to unite all the Irish political parties under the banner of an association for the celebration of the centenary of the Yeat magic.h Yeats's role, he thought was to reshape Ireland's literature, an Blavats 798 rebellion think a aim deliberately put in the poem To Ireland in the Coming Times. Gregor His patriotic impulse was different from that of the nineteenth explore century Irish nationalist poets. Poems such as September 1913, lineage. Easter 1916, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, Coole Park, The merged Tower, The Countess Cathleen, Lake Isle of Innisfree, etc. bear traces of Ireland.