Many issues led to Yeats love affair with Ireland souring, especially Maud Gonne and his dealings with her, the Elaine Gallery affair, the Death of Parnell and many others. This new sour affair with Ireland was easy seen.

... Many issues led to Yeats love affair with Ireland souring, especially Maud Gonne and his dealings with her, the Elaine Gallery affair, the Death of Parnell and many others. This new sour affair with Ireland was easy seen. Later on in his career Yeats underwent a profound style change. The romantic wistfulness, the dreamy, decorative quality of much of his early verse now gave way to a manner of one more terse, astringent and masculine, which became apparent in a new volume; "The Green helmet and other poems", published in 1910, and even more strikingly evident in the next volume of poems "Responsibilities" (1914). "The fascination of whats difficult" and "the grey rock" are examples of this new style, which Yeats probably felt, with justification, to be better suited than his usual manner to the increasingly varied and public nature of his themes, but this remarkable new phase also drew from

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