Essay - YeatsCrazy Jane Speaks with the Bishop: Themes and SymbolismW.B. Yeats had a very interesting personal life. He chased Maud Gonne, but was rejected four times. Then, when she was widowed, he proposed to her purely out of a sense of duty and was rejected again. He then proposed to his daughter, who was less than half his age. She also rejected his proposal. Soon after, he proposed to Georgie Hyde Lees, another girl half his age. She accepted and they had a successful marriage, apart from some indiscretions on his part. Her personal story seems relevant when it comes to a poem that praises sex and sin as essential to our spiritual flourishing. In “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop,” Yeats uses symbolism, themes of sexuality and good versus evil, and double entender to express his idea that people cannot be fully fulfilled without sin. In “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop,” Yeats employs two themes, the theme of good versus evil and the theme of sexuality. It conveys the theme of good versus evil through the bishop's statements in the first stanza, as well as in J...