JOURNAL OF ELT AND EDUCATION ISSN: 2618-1290 (Print), 2663-1482 (Online), Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2021, Page: 89-92 Published by, Hello-Teen Society & Center for Academic Research and Development (CARD) Received: 25/09/2021 Accepted: 01/11/2021 Published: 02/11/2021 Luxury of Captivity in William Butler Yeats' A Prayer for My Daughter and William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily Literary Research Paper Ahmad Mahbub-ul-Alam 1 * & Noshin Nisa 2 [Citation: Mahbub-ul-Alam, A., & Nisa, N. (2021). Luxury of Captivity in William Butler Yeats' A Prayer for My Daughter and William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily. Journal of ELT and Education, 4(4): 89-92.] Abstract William Butler Yeats' poem A Prayer for My Daughter (1921) is the continuation of his apocalyptic poem The Second Coming, as his prayer to protect his daughter by hiding her behind class divisions and hoping that his daughter never wants to seek change from traditions, while William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily (1930) shows the result of extreme superiority complex and isolating protection through the tragic life of Emily, who never got a chance to teach herself thrive through changes and developments of life because of lifelong isolation. This present study observes the lethal consequences of isolation and confining protection that affect the sensitive mind of a person, eventually affecting one's whole life. Considering both the primary sources and the secondary ones, the paper has been an approach of critical content analysis to draw its concluding remarks as per findings through the research. Keywords: Captivity, psychoanalysis, parental imposition 1. Introduction W. B. Yeats, in his pessimistic and apocalyptic poem The Second Coming, describes the horrible scattering of the modern world where the authority is losing its power, chaos and violence is increasing, good people are losing everything to believe in, the world keeps falling apart and straying from the centre. To make it all worse, Anti-Christ, or Satan, or a monster comes to take over the world instead of Jesus Christ to save the world. In such a faltering world, what one would think of the future of one's child, and how anyone could be safe from this increasing uncertainty and danger of the world – Yeats' A Prayer for My Daughter tries to deal with these questions, trying to provide solutions with ideals that are unfortunately conservative, discriminative and problematic. On the other hand, the setting of A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is the period after the American Civil War of 1861-65, right after slave abolition. The setting itself is a prominent indication of class segregation, which was lasting even after slavery was abolished. The deeply rooted classism and racism in the aristocratic class resulted in the underdeveloped mind of Emily leading to her tragic ending. The present research is a critical study on the sense of captivity through a different eye to unveil the undercurrent of 'captivity' in the selected texts. The only objective of the study was to explore the state of captivity as an undercurrent issue in the personal lives of the female protagonists in the selected texts by the two selected male authors at the level of an unconscious subjectivity. *Corresponding Email: pialbd@yahoo.com 1 PhD Research Fellow, Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) and Associate Professor & Head, Department of English, Manarat International University (MIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh 2 Undergraduate Researcher, Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Dhaka, Bangladesh