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Vasiliy Posted 21 years ago

NO SECOND TROY




WHY should I blame her that she filled my days


With misery, or that she would of late





Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,





Or hurled the little streets upon the great,





Had they but courage equal to desire?





What could have made her peaceful with a mind





That nobleness made simple as a fire,





With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind





That is not natural in an age like this,





Being high and solitary and most stern?





Why, what could she have done being what she is?





Was there another Troy for her to burn?


William B. Yeats
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Hello Vasiliy I like it; but with reservations. Yeats should have written a piece to close that volume entitled "He Praises His Beloved, But Begins to Realize that Readers May Not Always Be in the Right Mood to Put Up With his Extravagant Claims on her Behalf". q=%22maud+gonne%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en MrP

— MrPedantic

  • Hello Vasiliy I like it; but with reservations.
  • Yeats should have written a piece to close that volume entitled "He Praises His Beloved, But Begins to Realize that Readers May Not Always Be in the Right Mood to Put Up With his Extravagant Claims on her Behalf".
  • q=%22maud+gonne%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en MrP
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Hello Vasiliy

I like it; but with reservations. Yeats should have written a piece to close that volume entitled "He Praises His Beloved, But Begins to Realize that Readers May Not Always Be in the Right Mood to Put Up With his Extravagant Claims on her Behalf".

You may already know these pictures of Maud Gonne, the woman in question:

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Hello MrPedantic!

It would be better if I didn't see her. The great romantic image was demolished.

Vasiliy
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