![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mercury - mercury is used in thermometers to indicate temperatureĪll the dogs of Europe bark- World War II began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, but most people had recognized months before that it was likely, if not inevitable. he was buried in France, but his body was returned to Ireland to be re-interred in 1948. September, 1939 - this is the date of composition Yeats had died on January, 1939, in Menton, France. Raw towns that we believe and die in it survives, Would never want to tamper, flows on southįrom ranches of isolation and the busy griefs, In the valley of its making where executives Auden sought to make a living memorial to Yeats. Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still,įor poetry makes nothing happen: it survives The Irishman William Butler Yeats was the most famous and important poet writing in English at the time of his death in January, 1939, and W. The parish of rich women, physical decay, In Yeatss memoirs, Four Years:1887-1891, Yeats claimed William Watson joined but never came, Frances Thompson came once but did not join, and Oscar Wilde would only attend meetings in private houses. You were silly like us your gift survived it all: 1 Meru 2 Leda and the Swan 3 The Song of Wandering Aengus 4 He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead 5 When You Are Old 6 The Circus Animals’ Desertion 7 Lake Isle of Innisfree 8 The Sad Shepherd 9 The Second Coming 10 Easter, 1916 Meru ‘Meru’ delves into the importance of spirituality in a world of illusion. When the brokers are roaring like beasts on the floor of the Bourse,Īnd the poor have the sufferings to which they are fairly accustomed,Īnd each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom,Īs one thinks of a day when one did something slightly unusual. Audens complicated tribute to William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), considered the foremost Irish poet of his age and one of the finest writers in the English language. To find his happiness in another kind of woodĪnd be punished under a foreign code of conscience.īut in the importance and noise of to-morrow Now he is scattered among a hundred citiesĪnd wholly given over to unfamiliar affections, The current of his feeling failed he became his admirers. The death of the poet was kept from his poems.īut for him it was his last afternoon as himself, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The day of his death was a dark cold day. One of the foremost figures of 20th-century. The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and politician. Traditionally, elegiac poems deal with the memory of the death and his after-life. The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted, Auden describes the day of Yeatss death as a dark cold day, but this is objectively true, rather than mere pathetic fallacy or Romantic expression. ![]()
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