W.B Yeats as a modern poet

W.B Yeats is often regarded ad the most outstanding modern poet.The famous Irish poet ,he began his career and a leader of the Irish National movement popularly known as the Celtic Renaissance .It is Yeat himself who boldly announced that he was the ''Last Romantic" of English poetry.
                                As a poet W.B Yeats along with T.S Eliot ,Ezra Pound carried on the symbolist  tradition in English poetry.They believed that the subject matter and the style of poetry should not simple and lucid .Rather poetry should be laden with symbols and images to provoke the thought of the reader . Through Yeats adopted the simple and plain poetic style in his earlier poems ,Yet his later poetry is his best. The cardinal characteristics of his poetry are - 1.Evocative ,Symbolism and imagery,2. Occultism or sense of mystery ,3. Unrequited love for Maudgonne,4. Yeats' Romantic attitude begins with the physical plane and ends with the spiritual plane ,5.Nationalist fervour in Yeats' poetry,6. Fusion of the physical and spiritual in his poetry , as in " The Second Coming","The Wild Swan at Coole".