Friday, January 22, 2010

Poetry Bits - Yeats

Short excerpts.
W. B. Yeats, the greatest poet to write in the English language.
A short bit - "There"

There all the barrel-hoops are knit,
There all the serpent-tails are bit,
There all the gyres converge in one,
There all the planets drop in the sun.

and another, from "The Circus Animal's Desertion"
III
Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

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