Happy Birthday Mr W B Yeats

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  RonPrice
  July 10, 2007
  
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  THE EXPERIENCE OF CULTIVATED MEN
  
  The great poet is more type than man, more passion than type. A poet always writes of his personal life and, in his finest work, out of his tragedy. Art springs from distress. For the poet there is always a phantasmagoria, a delirium, an intoxication, a chaos of ideas, often from reading. The process of creating out of deep personal feeling is one of rebirth. As the poet labours to complete his work he is reborn as an idea, something intended, complete. It is in this that the poet’s power lies. By the continuous exercise of his craftsmanship and inspiration, nature and society grows more intelligible. Part of the poet’s creative power becomes intelligible as well. In the process the poet touches the essence, the spirit, of humanity. And this touching is significantly due to the poet's sense of responsibility to his community--the polarity balanced by his freedom.
  -Ron Price with thanks to Stephen Coote, W.B. Yeats: A Life, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1997.
  
  With no pretensions to being great,
  
  I write so much of this for them,
  
  as Yeats did so much and so often,
  
  so often--for his community, that
  
  has been so much of what he was,
  
  in mind, body, soul. Yes, I find,
  
  too, William, that community provides
  
  the compass of my imaginings. Whether
  
  in love or in utter frustration, in joy
  
  or in weariness, or looking out from
  
  behind my mask, for some aesthetic,
  
  artistic, completenessor all the world
  
  is still a stage and all the men and women
  
  merely players and we have the mask of our
  
  so many selves,so many necessary, needed,
  
  selves. With those desires for intoxication
  
  and delight from the memory of old emotions,
  
  with all the uncounted flavours of old
  
  experience, emotions deepened by time and
  
  cultivated men, constantly reanimating
  
  received images of delight in my daily life.
  
  Ron Price
  24 May 1999
  (Revised for: The Old Poetry Website)
  11/7/07
  That’s enough for now!
  
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  Ahkam
  April 17, 2007
  
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  thank you Oldpoetry

  William Butler Yeats is one of the Great poets of all times. His poetry includes a wide verity of subjects. The best of his poetic attributes is that he always uses very simple words to explain some very deep ideas. His poem, ‘For Anne Gregory’ is my favorite poem. In the end of the poem he concludes that…
  'I heard an old religious man
  But yesternight declare
  That he had found a text to prove
  That only God, my dear,
  Could love you for yourself alone
  And not your yellow hair.'
  Yeats is one of the few writers whose greatest works were written after the award of the Nobel Prize. Whereas he received the Prize chiefly for his dramatic works, his significance today rests on his lyric achievement.
  I believe that his birthday is 13th of June, so it’s more then a month yet to say Happy birthday to him.
  By the way I am one day older than him, mine birthday is 12th of June.
  Thank you oldpoetry for the birthday reminder of Mr. Yeats

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