1. The Poetry of Yeats
... in the 'children's eyes' on Yeats visit are juxtaposed against the 'sixty-year old smiling' man, catalysing his reverie. His classical reference to The 'Ledaean Body' conjures up the diptych of Maud Gonne's youth, enabling him to hold on to the sanctity of the past. Despite his understanding of time as corrupting a 'childish day', and the own unfolding 'tragedy ... ;passion" and "conquest". In "Among School Children" the stillness of this poem is seen in the images of religion, the nature of the "old clothes upon old sticks" and the "Quattrocento" statue of an ag...
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- Grade Level: Graduate