The Wind Among the Reeds William Butler Yeats 9780857924285 Books
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The Wind Among the Reeds William Butler Yeats 9780857924285 Books
Many modern readers have approached Yeats backwards. They start with his later poems and work their way backward and I assume find that it becomes more intellectually or culturally challenging as the read his earliest works. In this collection, Yeats demands that the reader acquaints himself with Celtic lore and symbolism and if the reader does not, than this collection will be an infuriating experience.For the modern young reader who may be fascinated by mysticism, magical realism, cultures outside the classical European experience, he may find that acquainting himself with Celtic history before he reads the collection will be most a rewarding manner to approach this collection.
Remember there were several decades between this collection and "Sailing To Byzantium."
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The Wind Among the Reeds William Butler Yeats 9780857924285 Books Reviews
This book arrived with the cover wrinkled and pages folded over. I would not have paid a quarter for it at a yard sale because of the damage. Can't believe there was not backer board in the envelope to help preserve the shape of the paperback. The poetry is lovely though.
Yeats is still writing in the spirit of the Celtic revival in this dream-like collection, his last of the nineteenth century. As a result each poem is layered in (I might say occluded by) allusion after allusion to Irish mythology. While there is surely some beautiful language here, the meanings are obscured by Yeats' re-appropriation of Caolte, Niamh, Dananns, Cumhal, Dathi, and Fand.
While one doesn't need to understand the story of Celtic mythology to appreciate the beauty of "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" or the truly perfect "The Poet Pleads with His Friends for Old Friends," many of the others in the collection will seem, as intended, as unearthly. "The Cap and the Bells," written after two dreams, the second of which Yeats described as "confused and meaningless," is lovely but confounding. It reminds me of a Bob Dylan song mixed with the Romantics.
The poet himself is all too aware of the esoteric nature of these poems as he writes in his own notes section "It is probable that only students of the magical tradition will understand me when I say that 'Michael Robartes' is fire reflected in water, and that Hanrahan is fire blown by the wind, and that Aedh, whose name is not merely the Irish form of Hugh, but the Irish for fire, is fire burning by itself."
Ah, he is writing for students of the magical tradition, which I must confess does not include me or, dare I presume, many contemporary readers.
Anything by Yeats is great.
Poems about Irish gods and legends set in a time when they are fading into the mists and being replaced by the modern world. Sadly beautiful.
The book is 60% poetry and 40% notes by Yeats, so it is a mix of verse and prose. It may be better to start with the notes as Yeats explains the Irish mythology he draws on and the symbols he uses. In the poetry Yeats repeats certain images too much, so that it seems repetitive. These images, already established as symbols, (e.g. the rose, dreams, sleep, the wind, hair), become rather ineffective as they immediately prompt symbolic or abstract thought. I no sooner read the image then question what it means. Poetry engages the reader first by its literal meaning, there is vitality in original imagery, which is lacking here. The one poem in this collection that does engage is "Aedh Tells of the Rose in His Heart," which I would rank as the best poem in the book. I also found "Valley of the Black Pig" interesting as Yeats writes of the mythological more than folklore, which is the subject and style of the other poems.
I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry on a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple-blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips, and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck til time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
I bought this because I wanted to have a paper copy of the original edition. I thought that the publisher would have made an effort to print the poems as poems are usually printed with a title, one poem per page, suitable spacing.
Well, the poems have titles. As for the rest, just look at the attached image.
- Font is Times 12 point; what is this, a high school essay?
- Poems are double-spaced; again, high school essay?
- No indication of differences between stanzas.
- No spaces between poems themselves.
Just crazy. It must have taken them 10 minutes, tops, to format this atrocity. There isn't even a credit for whoever created the painting on the front cover.
This publisher does not deserve to receive anyone's money for this work.
Many modern readers have approached Yeats backwards. They start with his later poems and work their way backward and I assume find that it becomes more intellectually or culturally challenging as the read his earliest works. In this collection, Yeats demands that the reader acquaints himself with Celtic lore and symbolism and if the reader does not, than this collection will be an infuriating experience.
For the modern young reader who may be fascinated by mysticism, magical realism, cultures outside the classical European experience, he may find that acquainting himself with Celtic history before he reads the collection will be most a rewarding manner to approach this collection.
Remember there were several decades between this collection and "Sailing To Byzantium."
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