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From A Line of Yeats
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From A Line of Yeats |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand 
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5246 From A Line of Yeats 01 April 2006 Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught Could it be true, as to lessons taught What of poetry and wonder born that child from his mother’s womb torn Ripped from suffocation to breath Again unable to eternal rest Taken from strength in connection A common blood, no longer to relate This day of understanding - a resurrection A matter of internment or desolate fate Empty to surrounding, blind until seen Lost in a solo beginning, nothing had been Father the parent, procreating truth Denial not required as looks to proof Genetic bowels transpired in kind Mercy, new born in developed mind What did this mean, was ask a request Born of this world a stranger to test “May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.” A Prayer For My Daughter - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer, regarded as one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. a poet who cares This was an exercise in using a line from one of Yeats poems and in no way meant to prove otherwise |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
Chiristopher I see nothing wrong in honoring a poet like this...you have done well adding your own words. In "poetry challenge" Redstone has asked people to do this...use the first line of a famous poem, and go from there on your own. Perhaps you saw that challenge, and just changed the format a little by using a full stanza to begin. I like the way your poem reveals your feelings...I enjoyed reading it. ---------ice/ford ><> |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand |
The poem itself is true to the title and uses one line from a Yeats poem "Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught" What appears at the bottom happens to be the quote from the Yeats poem, in the form of a footnote. Why this was done, and the connection with the final words of my post, relate to the site and forums I was prompted to compose my works. Which was a form of a challenge , for undisclosed reasons Sadly society today may not have accepted such masters as Yeats in their form of poetry. a poet who cares |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
Christopher I see the line now, I must have read this crosseyed..sorry I love that line , and the way you use language that fits the theme, very well, in my opinion. "Sadly society today may not have accepted such masters as Yeats in their form of poetry." I could not agree with you more... There is a sense of deep emotion in the way Yeats expressed himself. Is it something far deeper than can be understood by modern men?...Or is it that it is understood, and it makes the reader tremble, fearfull of their feelings, and perhaps life in general? Thank you for the poem... ---------ice/ford ><> |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
But you two gentlemen are bringing the idea of holding on to something good back to the art world again. Well done, Christopher. |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand |
then up until a few hours ago I did not know much about Yeats but a name. Perhaps tomorrow I will post a poem about Pennsylvania or Philadelphia It will give me something to think about and I have a few to choose from - in the Keystone State of my mind 'the only way to travel' |
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