W. B. Yeats’s poem “No Second Troy” takes its title from the legendary city of Troy, whose destruction followed the conflict surrounding Helen of Troy. The title is significant because it connects Maud Gonne, the woman Yeats admires and addresses indirectly in the poem, with Helen. Through this classical allusion, Yeats explores themes of beauty, political rebellion, violence, tragic heroism, and the destructive consequences of passionate idealism. The title immediately raises the question of whether there can be another Troy and another Helen whose beauty and actions could produce such destruction. Yeats wonders whether Maud Gonne’s extraordinary beauty and uncompromising political commitment might lead to a similar catastrophe. However, he ultimately suggests that there can be “no second Troy” because the circumstances of the modern world are different. The classical reference therefore becomes a way of examining both Maud Gonne and the Ireland of Yeats’s time. The poem presents Maud Gonne as a woman of remarkable beauty