Write down the theme of the following poem (Not more than 50 words).
May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.
A Prayer for My Daughter by W.B. Yeats
Answer : The deep love and concern of a father for his daughter is the theme of the above poem. Yeats hopes that his daughter may get beauty but he does not like her to be paragon of beauty. He believes that beauty often misleads a woman and becomes harmful for her.
