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Break my mind and then my body - Secret Garden at allpoetry
Materialism is not what I am Perhaps because materials I have not - Tree at allpoetry
The rainfall may be more,or less,or less But its reasoning remains put
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on September 1913 by William Butler Yeats, on March 14, 2007For me this is one of Yeats' greatest poems! I adore it and althoug his EASTER1916 poem is a deep and seemingly ironic turaround; I feel his argument of political saturation hereis valid given the historical context.
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on The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats, on March 14, 2007Hey I would tend to disagree with the earlier explination to this. He could be refering to purple heather which is common across Irish landscape and dominates many mountainsides or the tendancy of the sky to illuminate a reddy-purple at cartain times of the year in Ireland.
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on Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh, on December 8, 2006What a classic. "leafy with love" is one of my favourite lines its so warm.
A quick Background
This poem was written after the death of Major RObert Gregory, the son of Yeat's close friend Lady Gregory.He was accidentally shot down by allied Italian forces wile flying in the British RAF.
The lines "those I guard I do not love
those I fight I do not hate"
reflect the irony of an Irishman dying for oppressors England. It was but a "lonely impulse of delight", a rush of blood that drove him to this faith.