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Broken Dreams

FORM AND
STRUCTURE

CONTEXT

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The irregularity of the structure; different length stanza’s reflect the brokenness
Stanza 1,2,4 have direct address ‘For Your,’ ‘Your beauty’ ‘You are’
Poem begins with idea of broken + at end there is ‘nothing but memories,’ represents
emptiness, memories are not enough

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Broken Dreams: dreams are intangible, cannot be broken, so idea of not being able to
possess something
Dreams represent escapism, relates to occult

THEMES

QUOTES
AND
ANALYSIS

Memory

‘Your beauty can but
leave among us Vague
memories, nothing but
memories’
Repetition
Like the dreams
its insubstantial,
left in your mind
like her now faded
beauty
- Beauty can be
reborn in memory
but not in reality
- Yeats = fascinated
with early beauty
‘The certainty that I shall
see that lady Learning or
standing or walking
...
’
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Time/Ageing

‘Burdensome beauty – for your sole
sake Heaven has put away the stroke of
her death’
Alliteration and juxtaposition,
beauty can be a great
problem/comes with
responsibility
- Beauty associated with death
‘A young man when the old men are
done talking will say to an old man, Tell
me of that Lady’
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Idea of youth and age with
Bardic element
- Links to folklore of Ireland,
Bards would go around singing
folklore of knights of round
table and Lancelot, fighting for
love but doomed by own
mortality
‘The poet stubborn with his passion
sang us When age might well have
chilled his blood

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