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“No Second Troy” is a—
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ব্যাখ্যা (Explanation)

No Second Troy is a famous poem by W. B. Yeats. It was written in 1916 and is inspired by his unrequited love for the Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne.

১. Yeats is primarily known as a poet and dramatist, not a short story writer or novelist.
২. The poem compares Maud Gonne’s beauty and destructive nature to Helen of Troy.
৩. It is written in a single stanza consisting of twelve lines.

অতিরিক্ত তথ্য: W.B. Yeats was the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.