He felt that the supernaturalism was fading away in modern times and believed that some of the people in Ireland may remember about the days of the fairies.ĭromahair, Lissadell and Scanavin are three actual places mentioned in the poem. The supernatural in Yeats’ poetry was mostly about his admiration of the Irish folklore.
The mention of silvery heads of the fish, the golden light in the morning and evening, the golden or silver skies and the stormy silver fret the golden day creating a romantic atmosphere can be found in the poem.Īnother remarkable thing is the use of supernaturalism. The man cannot rest in peace.Īlso images of silver and golden recur throughout the whole poem. But the worms tell him about God who had made a beautiful pattern in the sky.
In the final stanza, we find the man buried under the hill of Lugnagall where he longs for eternal peace. In the first stanza, the man is in the crown thinking about his beloved but he is disturbed by a pile of fishes who sing about an isle where people love eternally. The poem has surreal images to describe visions of an imaginary world from the point of view of a man when he was alive and after he died. Running away from life will not give comfort or peace even after death. Life has its own joys and conflict and one cannot find happiness in imagination for long. Yeats was a romantic poet who lived in the world of imagination but he did not believe in escaping the trials and tribulations of life. It deals with the four stages of man’s life- youth, middle age, old age and death. The Man who Dreamed of Fairyland is a poem of four stanzas each consisting of three lines each. A question is introduced that why should those lovers, living in the fairy world enjoy a love which is not possible for lovers on earth? These thoughts troubled the lover in his grave and he never found any peace even after his death. As he was now dead and lay buried in a grave, the worms in his grave roamed among his bones and cried to him about the imaginary world which has been created by God and from where the eternal light of summer flowed to the dancer near the sea. This man was sleeping under a hill named Lugnagall and might have gotten some unperturbed and deep sleep under the cold and dewy slope of the hill. The fairyland took away his anger and tension. Whatever the moods and tension appeared in day light were covered with wool at midnight in fairyland. In old age, he could have observed small pieces of grass growing by the pool, singing to him about a lovely place where the chosen ones are leading a happy life. Perhaps he was thinking of taking some revenge through some ways. He thought about his enemies who once mocked him. The man contemplated as he stood beside a well in a place called Scanavin. As the man heard the singing of the fairies, his worldly wisdom comes to an end. The fairy dances continuously until she went hungry, she would pick the fruit from the sun and the moon. But as he passed near a marshy place, a lug-worm with its grey and dirty mouth sung him about the existence of a beautiful place somewhere to north or west or south where lived a gentle race of fairies under the golden light of the sky. It means that the man has accumulated some wealth before he was buried in a grave along the hill. The anxieties and fears involved in the making of money totally engulfed the man’s mind. The man was found roaming on the sands on the shore of Lissadell. The man was taken away to a complete different world which was very beautiful by the songs that the birds sang. Their vows were made under the woven and were permanent roof of the branches. People on this island loved the beauty of the seas and their vows of love were not destroyed due to the passage of time. The fishes seem to have raised their silver heads and sang of the golden light (the dawn and the dusk) in the sky where they saw an imaginary island of dreams. This man was thinking about an imaginary world when he poured all the fishes in a bowl. It meant that he had known to have some sort of love before he was buried in a grave. He was eagerly looking at a girl who wore a silken dress. The first stanza talks about a man who stood at a crowded place called Dromahair. The poem has a romantic characteristic, dealing with the life of a man who wants to run away from the worries and responsibilities of the material world to a world of fantasies and fairies. This poem was included in the volume of poems called The Rose which was published in the year 1893. The Man who Dreamed of Fairyland by William Butler Yeats is a story of a man who tried to escape from the world of reality to a world of imagination.
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