ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -’Lapis lazuli’, written on 25th July 1936 by W. B. Yeats was published in his “Last Poems”. The poem is dedicated to Harry Clifton, who presented him with such a precious stone on his 70th birthday. Intrigued Yeats uses the marvelous carving to meditate on the role of art in the face of the tragic world.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lapis Lazuli by William Butler Yeats | Poetry Foundation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lapis Lazuli is a deep blue mineral. Here it refers to the medallion of this Chinaware presented to the poet. The poet has listened to the cries of hysterical women (of the nineteen thirties) who are panicky and scared of the preparations for the Second World War.

Detailed explanation-4: -Although W. B. Yeats is a major modern poet and his poems are marked with modern human anxieties and crises, many of his poems contain romantic elements such as subjectivity, high imagination, escapism, romantic melancholy, interest in myth and folklore, etc.