Yeats & The Circus Mind in “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” Michael Clyde Craddock Jr College

Robert Frost was a poised author that was obsessed with the idea of creating tension in his poetry. He is family for the ascending or descending to a breaking point of human action and then watching something dissolve, crumble, or recover. Later, the class learned that William Butler Yeats acted as a contrary to Robert Frost. Yeats, we learned, believes that poems are quarrels between the realms of wholeness and brokenness; there is always that fine line that separates the two. He is concerned with the deep human struggle that many individuals on this earth face. With his writing, you learn that there is always a connection between wholeness, peace, and beauty. In Yeats’s mind, there is a confidence that people can go to a new wholesome place. His mind is concerned with struggles and trying to determine whether or not wholeness (that makes humans feel complete finally) is out of reach or not fully enough like we think it might be. In many of his poems, there is a sense of yearning, and this makes his poetry very relatable to audiences that feel vulnerable, depressed, or confused about life itself. In The Circus Animals’ Desertion, William Butler Yeats does not stray from his usual thematic representation of the human condition...