W.B.Yeats is the Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer. "Prayer for my daughter" has been written by Yeats addressing his daughter Anne Butler Yeats.
The poem starts with the stanza that described the gloom, that is their in the mind of the poet for his daughter like any other father W.B.Yeats is also very worried about safe and secured future of his daughter.
He keeps walking and praying for the young child. In the first line of first stanza there is a word 'Storm' which not only described the storm that is outside the house it also stand for the problems of up coming years.
W.B. Yeats talked about the future years of his daughter, which should be without obstacles.
He mentioned about wind of the sea like the wind of the sea effect tower bridge in the same way the situation and difficulties that will come in his daughter's life will also effect not only his daughter but also member around her.
"May she be granted beauty and yet not beauty to make a strangers eye distraught".
Thus, he prayed that, God should grant his daughter with beauty, but the beauty of his daughter should not distract stranger's mind and her beauty should not ruin ' natural kindness' of his daughter.
In the last stanza the poet wants his daughter to marry a groom, who takes her to a house with custom and ceremony. There should be not space for hatred and arrogance. So that, his daughter can live peacefully and by marring a cultured man her future gets secured.
Thus, the poet wishes all the happiness for her daughter and at the same Time he wants his daughter to be fall of merits.
The poem portrays a how father who has been blessed with a beautiful daughter. He is worried regarding safe and secure future of his daughter. He wants his daughter to be a woman with beauty and required innocence. So that she can have true friends around her and can have right life partner to spend life with.
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