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If you have revisited the town, thin Shade, Whether to look upon your monument (I wonder if the builder has been paid) Or happier thoughted when the day is spent To drink of that salt breath out of the sea When grey gulls flit about instead of men, And the gaunt houses put on majesty: Let these content you and be gone again; For they are at their old tricks yet. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The fifth poem ‘September 1913” seemed to mark a sea change in the poets thoughts. The poet is disillusioned with the present situation in Ireland, but he is also questioning the romantic notions of the past, because he realises there is no going back to a golden age. A refrain closes the first three stanzas”
“Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
Its with O’Leary in the grave”
While in the final stanza that speaks of the pain of the Irish heroes and exiles (Robert Emmet, Edward Fitzgerald and Wolfe Tone) the refrain that closes the poem pushes the disillusionment further into almost despair:
“But let them be they’re dead and gone,
They’re with O’Leary in the grave.
From here on in, the collection becomes more realist in thought, although there is still some imagery from a more mystical past. There soon follows a run of brilliant poems that demonstrate both fine feelings and a mastery of form and style. Yeats was hailed as a modernist poet because his themes tied in with the modernist movement, but he did not share the fashion for blank verse. In this collection of poems there is only one that is in blank verse all the rest have regular rhyming schemes, so much so that you know you are reading a poem. Yeats was not without a sense of humour and he could tell a good story, however apart from the first two poems there are no rambling mini epics, in fact many of the poems are quite short. There are still poems in this collection that are a puzzle, none more so than ‘Running to Paradise”, but the imagery and sound of the poem is so good that it is a puzzle that is a joy to read. There is a song quality to some of the poems and he will often use repeated couplets to enhance this feeling.
Yeats’ on/off love affair with his muse Maud Gone caused him much anguish and this comes spilling out in a small collection of poems originally published under the title: The Green Helmet. There were just eight poems in the original slim volume and here they are included with others written between 1909-1912, when Yeats was heavily involved in the Abbey theatre. There is passion, loss, reconciliation and finally an acceptance in the eight poem collection, but there is also references to ‘sweet death’ that becomes unsettling. The additional poems do not match the intensity of feeling but there is still plenty of enjoyment to be had from most of them.
The book also includes a short one act play “The Hour Glass” from 1912.
The collection Responsibilities was published in 1914, but the collection I read which includes the Green Helmet poems was published in 1916. I think there are poems in this collection that everyone could enjoy and some of them are great poems, poems that will stay in your head and poems that you will want to come back to. This is a five star collection (and it’s free on the net) ( )