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W.B. Yeats- His Life and Times "A poet always writes of his personal life" A person is merely a product of the environment in which they are brought up. This is the strongest influence a person can experience and it shapes them throughout their life. Yeats lived in one of the most turbulent periods in Irish history. The events going on around him shaped Yeats as a man as well as a poet. Yeats …

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