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A Prayer for My Daughter by William Butler Yeats opens with an image of the newborn child sleeping in a cradle. A storm is raging with great fury outside his residence. A great gloom is on Yeats’ mind and is consumed with anxiety as to how to protect his child from the tide of hard times ahead. The poet keeps walking and praying for the young child and as he does so he is in a state of reverie. He feels a kind of gloom and worry about the future of his daughter.
He says “As I walk and pray for my younger daughter, I imagine in a state of excitement and reverie” that the future years
He says “As I walk and pray for my younger daughter, I imagine in a state of excitement and reverie” that the future years
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