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Stories of Red Hanrahan
W. B. Yeats
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Then the first of the old women rose up, holding the cauldron between her two hands, and she said 'Pleasure,' and Hanrahan said no word. Then the second old woman rose up with the stone in her hands, and she said 'Power'; and the third old woman rose up with the spear in her hand, and she said 'Courage'; and the last of the old women rose up having the sword in her hands, and she said 'Knowledge.' And everyone, after she had spoken, waited as if for Hanrahan to question her, but he said nothing at all. And then the four old women went out of the door, bringing their tour treasures with them, and as they went out one of them said, 'He has no wish for us'; and another said, 'He is weak, he is weak'; and another said, 'He is afraid'; and the last said, 'His wits are gone from him.' And then they all sai. . . Read More
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The old brown thorn trees break in two high over Cummen Strand
Under a bitter black wind that blows from the left hand;
Our courage breaks like an old tree in a black wind and dies,
But we have hidden in our hearts the flame out of the eyes
Of Cathleen the daughter of Hoolihan.
The winds have bun
Yeats creates an Irish myth that doesn't depend too much on past narrative myths or reconstruction to access those perennial sensibilities.
Not much can be said by me, but the prose here is astonishingly poetic to the point of reading like prose-poetry. The conclusive dedication to A. E. is delightfu
Welch sonderbare Geschichte über das leid Irlands. Fragen über Fragen…
Finishing up my Yeats after The Celtic Twilight and The Secret Rose, this is similar to the latter, in that it incorporates folklore and legend of the former while being told as written pieces and not tale fragments. Here, though, we follow one character: Schoolmaster, poet and singer Owen "Red" Han
yoğun fantastikli güzel yorum :)
Üç bölümdeki öykülerden oluşuyor kitap ve en çok Hanrahan'ın öykülerini sevdim, geri kalanlar benim için fazla fantastik. Lâkin üslubun lezzetini varsaymamak imkansız. Okurken insan şuralarda geziyor sanki. Of.
"Onca zaman nerede olduğunu söylemesi zor," dedi en yaşlıları. "Ya da dünyanın nerelerinde
Özellikle Hanrahan öyküleri ve Simya Gülü çok güzel. Yeats tam bir modern klasik. Okunmalı.