This paper argues that any text is a source of endless speculation, argument and debate in relation to three
poems by William Butler Yeats: "Sailing to Byzantium", "Easter 1916" and "Wild Swans at Coole". Each poem is analysed through two
critical approaches, namely New Critical, which focuses on the specific devices used by the
poet in the actual poems and Marxist, which looks at the context of the poet and
Poem to extract meaning.