Well, I'm Irish so I've got a great love of Irish poetry, especially Yeats and Mahon. Unfortunately I don't get as much time to read poetry as I'd wish, what with college and work taking up most of my time.
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on The Wild Swans At Coole by William Butler Yeats, on September 6, 2007This is a wonderful poem, and I can't help but feel for Yeats in line 6. The whole idea that there are only "nine-and-fifty Swans" when swans mate for life is powerful. The idea that he is alone like that last swan - powerful image.
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on The Old Prison by Judith Wright, on September 6, 2007ILR, although I agree with your reading of the poem, there is just one thing to note. There were actually plans to set up an oil terminal in the area of Trial Bay.
That said, I do still think that your reading of the black honey as the work of the prisoners - if not the prisoners themselves - is a more accurate synopsis. -
on September 1913 by William Butler Yeats, on September 5, 2007This is simply an amazing poem. I love the whole idea that he presents in the last stanza - that Ireland was like a women that these 'rebels' loved so much that they were willing to lay down their lives for her.
Even in the first stanza where he seems to call out to those of us who do nothing to free our land. It's actually quite humiliating. It’s almost as if we have forced these men to sacrifice themselves through our inaction. Rightly so does he praise those who took up arms for the liberation of their homeland - Edward Fitzgerald (died 1798), Robert Emmet (died 1803) and Theobald Wolfe Tone (died 1798) – and gave their lives to the rebellion.
