Aw, Yeats. I must say, he looks to me exactly the way I always picture a male poet should look, kind of dreamy-eyed! This post made me miss my Irish Studies class, which gave me a whole new appreciation for Yeats and Irish literature in general.
All posted for you at Win a Book! Thanks for the e-mail, babe. While I can say my personal writing was not up to Yeats. Thank you for sharing some of your Yeats favorites! Adding the images to the poems is a great touch.
This was a beautiful post. I could definitely feel your love for Yeats. He writes in a way that makes me see landscapes. Not sure if that was his intention. Not sure why — I just like how it sounds. Totally with Jenners on the Yeats was hot bit! Excellent post! You are commenting using your WordPress.
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This entry was posted in poetry and tagged poetry. Bookmark the permalink. JoAnn says:. Great post, Jill! At the end of the year, they tricked Fergus out of his kingdom. Fergus spent the rest of his days hunting, fighting and feasting.
He was a poet, and in the Irish saga, Tain bo Cuailgne he was the lover of Maeve. I agree with AndrewHide One thing to speculate on is Andrew Hide - Why must one suffer to find real peace, this poem is rich in thought and voice. A joy to read and read again. Cristos - Fergus sounds like a nice guy, with a little possitive outlook, not brooding on the troubles that life and love bring. Return back to simplicity and enjoy that which is, and can be enjoyed.
His work has been widely circulated and anthologised. As poetry and as song a number of his poems have been recorded and also used on radio, TV and films. Share it with your friends:. Make comments, explore modern poetry. Join today for free!
Sign up with Facebook. Whose woods these are I think I know. The ABCABC rhyme scheme gives a harmonious sound to the poem which compliments the lyrical imagery, without being so overpowering as to make the poem seem like a simplistic proverb or moral lesson, with all its imperative tense. This interpretation seems weaker in the light of the rest of the poem, however, and one could see it as a fault in the poem that it leaves such a contrary reading available.
This is felt also in the repetition over lines 6 and 7. Invoking the play brings associations of troubled youth, and ominous, mysterious darkness. The final four lines of the poem show Fergus consumed by his landscape. It would be difficult to extract any moral as such from the poem.
Yeats, while offering carefree youth as a refuge, seems to imply through the persistance and potency of imagery that a state of consuming reflection and regret is inevitable. Reblogged this on Over the Top.
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