Essay - YeatsCrazy Jane Talks to the Bishop: Themes and SymbolismW.B. Yeats had a very interesting personal life. He chased Maud Gonne, only to be repelled four times. Then, widowed, he proposed to her only 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. Shortly thereafter he proposed to Georgie Hyde Lees, another girl half his age. She accepted and the marriage was a success, apart from a few indiscretions on his part. His personal story seems relevant when talking about a poem that praises sex and sin as essential to our spiritual fulfillment. In “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop,” Yeats uses symbolism, themes of sexuality and good versus evil, and double entendre 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 does J...