Write down the theme of the following poem (Not more than 50 words).
I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower, And under the arches of the bridge, and screamIn the elms above the flooded stream; Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
A Prayer for My Daughter by W.B. Yeats
Answer : Social anarchy of the contemporary society and a father’s anxiety for her loving daughter is the theme of this poem above. Here a father, the poet himself, is in anxiety to protect his new born baby from the chaos and confusion of future which has already started. So he is praying for her
