The poem, The Stolen Child, is composed of four stanzas.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS STOLEN CHILD FULL
He will miss the sights and sounds of the world because he is now coming to the leafy island to live with the fairies to escape from a world full of miseries and sorrows. The child will no longer see the brown mice jumping around the boxes containing oatmeal. The fairies say that the child will no longer hear the sound of the calves on the hillside or the sound of the kettle over the fire that gives him warmth. In the final stanza of The Stolen Child, the child goes to the island with the fairies. The fairies call upon the human child to their fairyland because the world where the human child lives is fuller of miseries than the child can think of.
The fairies bend over the herbs against the dewdrops near the streams. They say that place lies where the water flows from hills above Glen-Car and causes out in pools among the tall grass. The third stanza of The Stolen Child describes where the fairies look for sleepy fish and give them disturbing dreams by whispering in their ears. The fairies call the child to come to the fairy island because the child lives in such a world that is fuller of miseries and tears than he can comprehend. The fairies tell us that they jump here and there and chase bubbles at night while the world full of troubles sleeps and is full of anxieties even when they are sleeping. The fairies talk about a place that is far away from the distant Roses, where the stream of moonlight falls on the grey sands and brighten them, where the fairies walk all night and dance, join hands together, and cast glances at one another till the moon has reached heaven. The fairies ask the child to walk hand in hand with them towards their fairy island because the world in which the child lives is more full of miseries and sorrows than he can understand. The fairies call the human child to come to the waters of the lake and wild rock. The fairies hid their fairy pots full of stolen berries and red cherries. Herons are sleepy awakening rats with the noise of their wings flapping. The leafy island lies where the rocky highland of Sleuth Wood touches the lake’s water. The poet describes the ‘leafy island’ where the fairies live. It revolves around a group of fairies who lure a child away from his home to a fairy world. The poem celebrates the stories of Ireland, which his mother loved. William Butler Yeats was 21 when he composed this poem. It was written in 1886 and published in 1889. Yeats was included in the volume of Crossways, which was published in the year 1889. As he grew older, he deviated from pleasant lyrics to verses with sterner discipline and deeper thought. His aim in writing poetry was to make the world conscious of the beauties of Celtic literature. His poetry has a Celtic flavour mixed with mysticism and melancholy. William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, a dreamer, and a visionary fascinated by folklore, ballads, and superstitions about the Irish peasantry.
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