Yeats

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He does seem to "lose" rhythm sometimes, although I think in his post-Pound work at least this is a deliberate effect, a conscious harshness.

Saying that I also wonder about how he read his poems aloud, too, in the video I just posted you can hear him changing/singing "The lake isle of inisfree".

Which I don't particularly enjoy but it does suggest that he was going for a certain melodious effect that might have superceded metre

It seems rythmn and smoothness was a big focus of his edits. That version of Solomon and The Witch is way more imediate than the one in my book, both in meter and message.

 

[Corpsey]

So is your version the earlier version?

 

[Corpsey]

Reminds me of how Pound reads e.g.

 

[luka]

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[Benny Bunter]

When I read his biography I found him very "relatable".

A timid loser of a man, terrified of action. Compensated with daydreams as a yoof (all that misty pre-raphealite stuff) and later came to see how futile it was in later life (which is when his poetry became really great).

"I AM worn out with dreams;
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams;"

It's really great that biography - Amazon product ASIN 0140113649

Been getting more into Yeats recently so I ordered this biography cos I found a cheap copy on amazon, better be fucking good.

Been reading the Tower today, one which really puzzled me before, but I think it's great now. He's one of those where you have to read around the poems a bit to unlock them. Like if you didn't know about the tower where he lived, or the Hanrahan short stories he wrote, or Maud Gonne, you wouldnt get anything out of that poem, you'd just be left scratching your head.

I love the long final section, where it speeds up with the short lines - there's a great sense of pride and resolution about it, after all the pacing about with a furrowed brow musings that come before it.

What do you think, @Corpsey ?