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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
relaxing
slow-paced
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emotional
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
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adventurous
medium-paced
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Plot
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Complicated
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challenging
slow-paced
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Reading a full book of poetry by the same poet really gave me an insight into how Yeats’ poetry is constructed. I found it fascinating how his poetry seems to embody many of the features of Romantic poetry - beautiful imagery, an appreciation for nature, a focus on the relationship between the world and the individual - whilst also having modernist features. Several poems in the collection also focused on WW1 (one of my favourites was ‘On Being Asked for a War Poem’) and it really did feel like a wonderful insight into the transition between Romanticism and modernism. It was also a powerful reminder that neither period is as disconnected from our present as it might be tempting to presume!
not the usual type of poetry i'd pick up. folktales & legends are nottttt really my jam but nonetheless these are still some pretty neat sometimes very fantastical collection of poems. lol i have no idea who yeats is referring to half the time here but these poems, which read almost like epic little stories really, still managed to be quite interesting. some great storytelling with some of them too hello? not too much of a review here, so i'll just dump my favorite poems:
-ephemera
-the lake isle of innisfree
-when you are old
- the lamentation of the old pensioner
- he bids his beloved be at peace
- he tells of the perfect beauty
- he tells a valley full of lovers
- he wishes for the cloths of heaven (so many he's! goddamn!)
- adam's curse
- o do not love too long
- reconciliation
- brown penny
- to a child dancing in the wind
- a memory of youth
-ephemera
-the lake isle of innisfree
-when you are old
- the lamentation of the old pensioner
- he bids his beloved be at peace
- he tells of the perfect beauty
- he tells a valley full of lovers
- he wishes for the cloths of heaven (so many he's! goddamn!)
- adam's curse
- o do not love too long
- reconciliation
- brown penny
- to a child dancing in the wind
- a memory of youth
i mit hoved sammenligner jeg altid william butler yeats og john keats 1) fordi the smiths og "keats and yeats are on your side while wilde is on mine" fra cemetery gates og 2) fordi deres efternavne rimer, hvis man ignorerer at yeats er irsk og udtales yates. jeg var ikke stor fan af keats, så der var ikke meget at konkurrere med, men det skal ikke formindske hvordan yeats overvejer og gennemarbejder sine tematikker. til tider lidt 18-19th century incel/nice-guy-energy, der senere manifesteres i hans mussolini-sympati (u read that right
Yeats is Yeats. I'm not sure what else I could possibly say except maybe that I'm very Irish, and very lonely, and therefore I love him and these poems. Maud, if you're reading this, have a great summer ;)