FOR ANNE

GREGORY
BY-AYANA,10-B
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LOVE
FOR PHYSICAL APPEREANCE AND LOVE FOR
INNER BEAUTY.
• TO KNOW ABOUT TRUE LOVE.
• TO KNOW WHO REALLY LOVE US FOR OURSELF
NOT FOR OUR PHYSICAL APPERENCE .
 AUTHOR:
• William Butler Yeats was an Irish
poet, dramatist, writer, and
politician. One of the foremost
figures of 20th-century
literature in the English-
speaking canon, he was a driving
force behind the Irish Literary
Revival and became a pillar of
the Irish literary establishment
who helped to found the Abbey
Theatre.
TRUE
LOVE…..
 FOR ANNE GREGORY
• “Never shall a young
man, Thrown into
despair By those
great honey-coloured
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself
alone And not your
yellow hair.”
 CONTINUE …
• “But I can get a
hair-dye And set
such colour there,
Brown, or black, or
carrot, That young
men in despair May
love me for myself
alone And not my
yellow hair.”
 END
• “I heard an old
religious man But
yesternight declare
That he had found a
text to prove That
only God, my dear,
Could love you for
yourself alone And
not your yellow hair.”
 POETIC DEVICES
• STANZA 1;

• Metaphor - The poet has compared Anne's hair with ramparts of a fort.

• Alliteration - It is the repetition of a letter at the start of closely placed words. The repetition of the letter 'y' in
"your yellow.“

• STANZA 2;

• Alliteration - It is the repetition of a letter at the start of closely placed words. The repetition of the letter 's' in
"Set Such."

• Metonymy - The poet has used carrot to show orange colour.

• STANZA 3;

• Anaphora: It is the repetition of a word at the start of two or more consecutive lines -

• (That he had found a text to prove

• That only God, my dear,).

• ii. Alliteration: It is the repetition of a letter at the start of closely placed words. The repetition of the letter: h in
"he had“ y in "your yellow".
 THEME ;

• The poem “For Anne Gregory”

focuses on the idea of true love. Anne
Gregory is a beautiful girl and
everyone loves her for her beauty.
However, Anne Gregory doesn't want
this kind of love for herself.
 LINK WITH OTHER SUBJECT;
• Cosmetology-
• It is a field of study and practice that focuses on
beauty and personal care. It involves the use of
various techniques and treatments to enhance
and improve the appearance of a person's skin,
hair, nails, and overall physical presentation.
 GROUP 1;
• 1.WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE POET?

• A.WILLIAMS BUTLER YEATS.

• 2. What colour is the young woman’s hair?

• A. The young woman’s hair is of yellow colour.

• 3. What does the young man mean by “great honey-coloured/Ramparts at

your ear?
• A. The “great honey-coloured/Ramparts at your ear” refers to the
beautiful yellow coloured hair that falls at the woman’s ear and cover it
like a wall around a fort
 GROUP 2;
• 1.WHAT IS THE THEME OF THE POEM?

• A. The poem “For Anne Gregory” focuses on the idea of true love. Anne Gregory is a
beautiful girl and everyone loves her for her beauty. However, Anne Gregory doesn't
want this kind of love for herself.
• 2. What colour is the young woman’s hair? What does she say she can change it to?

• A. The young woman’s hair is of yellow colour. She says that she could get her hair
dyed to brown, black or carrot colour. She would change the colour of her hair so
that the young men in despair would love her only and not her yellow hair.
• 3. Why would she want to do so?

• A.She wanted them to love her for what she was and not for her appearance such as
her hair colour.
 BOTH THE GROUPS:

•Q.WHAT IS THE RHYME

SCHEME OF THE POEM?
•A. abcbdb