Not Another City

In “No Second Troy,” William Butler Yeats uses many lines of imagery to describe an amazingly beautiful woman. He says that she is so incredibly beautiful that it will cause major violence among men. This poem implies that ravishing beauty is synonymous to war, violence, and misery. This woman knows how powerful she is and is pleased with the havoc she will reek. The speaker seems to be trying to come to terms with his own unrequited love for this woman, “Why should I blame her that she filled my days/ With misery.” This allows for him to be overly critical of her involvement of a possible war or revolution. “That she would of late/ Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways” discloses that this woman’s beauty will cause men to go to war. She will be the cause of the start of a great revolution. These “ignorant” men are so awe-struck by her beauty that it will cause them to do things that they would not normally do such as “hurled the little stree...