Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck (Department of English), course: The Irish Literary Revival, language: English, abstract: William Butler Yeats's poem Adam's Curse is about the difficulty of creating something beautiful, society's lacking understanding of the work of an author and poet and the sincere expression of love. Yeats being identical with the speaker sits together with two other persons on a day in late summer. This paper is the attempt to give a detailed interpretation on William Butler Yeats's "Adam's Curse".