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In The Seven Woods
W. B. Yeats
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In the Seven Woods is Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual, colloquial and dramatic than previously. In addition, several poems sound a note of bitter lamentation over the marriage in 1903 of Maud Gonne, Yeats's great love and muse, to John MacBride.
In the Seven Woods is Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual, colloquial and dramatic than previously. In addition, several poems sound a note of bitter lamentation over the marriage in 1903 of Maud Gonne, Yeats's great love and muse, to John MacBride.
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Was carried to the goodly house
Where the Hound of Ulad sat before
The brazen pillars of his door;
His face bowed low to weep the end
Of the harper’s daughter and her friend;
For although years had passed away
He always wept them on that day,
For on that day they had been betrayed;
And now that Honey-Mouth is laid
Under a cairn of sleepy stone
Before his eyes, he has tears for none,
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Although he is carrying stone, but two
For whom the cairn’s but heaped anew.
We hold because our memory is
So full of that thing and of this
That out of sight is out of mind.
But the grey rush under the wind
And the grey bird with crooked bill
Have such long memories that they still
Remember Deirdre and her man,
And when we walk with Kate or Nan
About the windy wat. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Not quite as good as The Wind Among the Reeds, but still excellent, and even better for the inclusion of Adam's Curse, which is one of my all time favorite poems:
"I had a thought for no one's but you ears:
That you were beautiful, and that I strove
To love you in the old high way of love;
That it had a
Beautiful short collection that turns more to the love of myth and nature as opposed to his former more romantic collection. Not too much more to say than what I’ve said about his previous collections though. This is supposedly considered one of the books in his transitional period so I guess that m
Interesting early poems - magical in places, but perhaps I should have read this before The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore, transcribed from actual conversations, which makes it haunting and very special. At least one of the poems in In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic
Another good collection of poems.
The 4th collection in the completed poems work by Yeats.
I liked:
- Never give all the heart
Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everyt
A collection of 14 poems from 1904. Highlights - "never give all the heart" "Adam's curse" "o do not love too long" "in the seven woods"
It’s been far too long since I’ve read any of Yeats’ poetry, so it’s about time that I got back into it. Some of his collections are hit and miss for me, but In the Seven Woods was a very interesting read since it taps into the height of his interest in Celtic mysticism and nature-based themes. Acco
Dream tredding aside, this very short collection is also very forgettable.