He wrote a poem after his visit to an ancient.
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The poem, ‘Among School Children,’ was inspired by his senate-sponsored visit to Waterfront Convent as a sixty-year-old Senator of the free Irish State in the capacity of the Inspector of schools. The poem begins in the first person (‘I’) most naturalistically in the standard pattern of a guided tour and reaches the philosophic heights. In the words of W.H. Hudson, “Yeats has a knack of raising occasional poetry to the level of profound poetry of universal appeal and significance. ‘Among School Children’ can be cited as an example.” This poem is considered to be one of the finest of Yeats’s compositions, which attempt at synthesizing “the sixty-year-old smiling public man,” the aged one-time lover, and the would-be philosopher into something as organic as a chestnut tree and as coherent as a dancer’s movements.