To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear - meaning Summary
Calming a Fearful Heart
Yeats addresses a fearful, trembling heart, urging it to be still by recalling ancient wisdom. He contrasts individual fear with the vast, indifferent forces—fire, flood, and cosmic winds—and advises that those who cower before such powers are cut off from the solitary grandeur of the many. The poem comforts by reframing fear as separation from dignity and encourages calm acceptance to reclaim connection with majesty.
Read Complete AnalysesBe you still, be you still, trembling heart; Remember the wisdom out of the old days: Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.
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