1. The Poetry of Yeats
... poem 'Among School Children' takes this dichotomy further in an often despairing quest for meaning in the face of 'sixty winters' of pain. The element of art is not served as a solution for the tensions and arguments within Yeats heart, but instead offers him the possibility of some form of transcendent solace for the dualities of his heart. The ... seen in the images of religion, the nature of the "old clothes upon old sticks" and the "Quattrocento" statue of an aging Maud Gonne. It is not until the last image, that the reference to the 'dancer' who finds harmony within ...
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