By Dr Oliver Tearle ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ is one of W. B. Yeats‘s (1865-1939) most popular poems. It’s also one of his shortest – just eight lines in all. Since we started to offer our own close analysis of short English poems that we believe repay closer attention, we’ve offered, among … Continue reading A Short Analysis of Yeats’s ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’