Discourse on Yeats? Fie on you, evil one, that sounds entirely too much like work to my tastes!
:-)
But perhaps, perhaps... I've always preferred "Easter 1916" and "Sailing to Byzantium". "Innisfree" is good for a comparison with "Byzantium" and when one speaks of "Easter 1916" one should probably take a look at "September 1913" as well...
I could look out some of my old English papers at some point. Perhaps. I doubt I'll be thinking new thoughts, though...
...Mind, if you like Yeats, have you ever had a look at Seamus Heaney? His "The Tollund Man" from (I think) the collection North is pratically my favorite poem ever.
...Bridegroom to the goddess, She tightened her torc on him And opened her fen, those dark juices working Him to a saint's kept body. Trove of the turf-cutters' honeycombed workings, Now his stained face Reposes at Aarhus.
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But perhaps, perhaps... I've always preferred "Easter 1916" and "Sailing to Byzantium". "Innisfree" is good for a comparison with "Byzantium" and when one speaks of "Easter 1916" one should probably take a look at "September 1913" as well...
I could look out some of my old English papers at some point. Perhaps. I doubt I'll be thinking new thoughts, though...
...Mind, if you like Yeats, have you ever had a look at Seamus Heaney? His "The Tollund Man" from (I think) the collection North is pratically my favorite poem ever.
...Bridegroom to the goddess,
She tightened her torc on him
And opened her fen, those dark juices working
Him to a saint's kept body.
Trove of the turf-cutters' honeycombed workings,
Now his stained face
Reposes at Aarhus.
It raises shivers on my spine :-)