Tower

Snowed in, my girlfriend cut my hair in my kitchen and I read out loud from The Tower. Later that afternoon we trudged to a coffee shop through waist-high snow and I finished it over a cup of extremely strong coffee. The coffee-shop owner had The Kinks on.......more

Powerful verse. I particularly liked The Tower and A Man Young and Old. They both appeal to me in my growing dotage. J also spent a bit of time googling poem titles with analysis of the poems due to my complete lack of a classical education 😀......more

Yeats i love you for writing pieces like "ephemera", "the wheel" and basically every piece on woman-man relationships and their entanglements with love, but i'm having trouble with this. I'll blame this one on personal taste.......more

In my review of Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist, I casually referred to "Yeatsian idealism," to contrast the earlier poet's elite modernism with Heaney's later and more modest poetic of the turf and bog. Facility with such phrases as "Yeatsian idealism" is the fruit of a general education, but......more

Libro in rilettura. Cosa questo significhi proprio non so. Ho letto prima le poesie. (Poesie?! poemi...) Comunque molto, molto belle. La mia rilettura comincia con la pagina 5, 'Vita di Yeats' e già mi ci perdo: lo adoro, lui, W.B. proprio. Ecco, volevo dirMelo. La rilettura continuerà con il leggere le......more