1. The Poetry of Yeats
... ;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 the reference to the 'dancer' ... who finds harmony within the 'dance', is revealed as Yeats ... ...
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- Grade Level: Graduate