The lot of love is chosen. I learnt that much
Struggling for an image on the track
Of the whirling Zodiac.
Scarce did he my body touch,
Scarce sank he from the west
Or found a subtetranean rest
On the maternal midnight of my breast
Before I had marked him on his northern way,
And seemed to stand although in bed I lay.
I struggled with the horror of daybreak,
I chose it for my lot! If questioned on
My utmost pleasure with a man
By some new-married bride, I take
That stillness for a theme
Where his heart my heart did seem
And both adrift on the miraculous stream
Where — wrote a learned astrologer —
The Zodiac is changed into a sphere.
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Yeats! He is truely one of the old school greats and he always stuck to using traditional rhyming forms. The rhythm in this is really amazingly great and flows like honey off the tongue.
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it was sort of confusing, but....i thought it was quite beautiful. the rhyme scheme is amazing. it is about love in the oddest way. the poem just hits a chord with me. i am sure this piece will stay with me. Yeats must have been in love with some one but couldn't find the opportune moment to tell her. he was probably in some ways trying to confess love while hiding it at the same time, i think.
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FireGeck0 is right, this is very controversial, as she, I had to read it again, I can relate to this, we all have to make choices, choices that sometimes are forced upon us, but choices nevertheless. It is a very beautiful poem, one which when read once you do not get the full impact of the piece, the struggle to choose, but in the end he chose his heart, a wonderful read as always Mr Yeats, thank you...............
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I can't quite understand it. But I think that she chose the man and they were parted, but wherever the man she loved is she is also there because she said that "Where his heart my heart did seem". Oh I really am not sure about this. But I am trying to read it over and over again just to really inderstand it.
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Very controversial! I had to re-read it at first, just to make sure I had it right. But he has it right--where the love is, the heart is also. I also love how he expresses how it was his choice ("I chose it for my lot!") and the struggle for his own acceptance ("I struggled with the horror of daybreak"). Took me a bit, but I think I figured it out.
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