The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland

The writer of this paper employs Mythological and Archetypal criticism to analyze the Irish folklore themes and archetypes in Yeats's poems so as to explore the influence of Irish folklore on the poetry of W. B. Yeats. The author argues that the early period of Yeats largely centered on Irish folklores. Yeats's poems often have a mystical and lyrical style and quality. The analysis of this paper relies on the notion of archetypal motifs, themes. Among the best-known poems of the period are The Wanderings of Oisin, The Stolen Child, and particularly, The Lake Isle of Innisfree. The paper specifically looks into this influence of Irish folklore on Yeats from four aspects that is: recapturing the heroic past of Irish myth; flying into fairyland from the real world; the abduction of human by fairies; the interaction between the imagination world and the real world.