1. The Poetry of Yeats
... to capture a moment in time and immortalise it, allowing it to outlive the artist with its restricted tone, forcing order to resolve chaos, age and eternal youth and creating a 'lyrical' still shot seeking beauty and harmony from the inherent polarities and hence contrasting it with the swans that have the eternal gift of "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 aging ... Maud Gonne. It is not until the last image, that t...
- Word Count: 892
- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: Graduate