Sinead O’Connor Danced on the Edge of the Dark All Her Life

Auden wrote of Yeats, “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.” Cruel Ireland hurt Ms. O’Connor into song. She called Ireland a theocracy. She was furious that in a country that had supposedly fought for and won its freedom, women and children were so silenced and disempowered. She understood and had experienced pain, neglect and injustice and sang for those who also knew these things.

#WHAuden #Sinead #Yeats #islam

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/opinion/sinead-oconnor-meaning-death-ireland.html

Reading May Sarton’s “Journal of a Solitude,” once more. I appreciate the distinction she and Yeats make about words versus images and concepts.

At any rate, she has to be talking about this poem.

#Sarton #Yeats #poems #poetry

One of the best things about time away in Sligo is that you get to meet W.B. Yeats.
So there's a series of locations associated with him and the Sligo landscape that inspired his poetry. This poem was written on a plate at the start of Slishwood forest walk. It was beautifully embedded into a metal artwork.

'Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
than you can understand."

#Yeats #Poetry #Sligo #Ireland #Art

Folklore read live!

Three stories about the inscrutable desires of ghosts in old Irish folklore.

Hear them LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/BfrC2og8f9M

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #irish #ireland #yeats #ghosts #spirits

Folklore Read Live!

What happens when a giant drops its spectacles?

Find out tonight @ 6:30 pm PST/9:30 pm EST: https://youtube.com/live/8eFRYswzpRM

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #ireland #giants #ymir #yeats

Folklore Read Live!

What happens when a giant drops its spectacles?

Find out tonight LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/8eFRYswzpRM

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #ireland #giants #ymir #yeats

National Library of Ireland 2023 Joseph Hassett Yeats Lecture

"Ireland's Interpreter" and "Europe's Welcome": W.B. Yeats and the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923.

13 June 2023, 7.00pm - 8.00pm

Live (Kildare St, #Dublin) booking: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/2023-joseph-hassett-yeats-lecture

Livestream booking https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/live-stream-irelands-interpreter-and-europes-welcome-wb-yeats-and-nobel-prize

#nli #lecture #yeats #WBYeats

TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING
By W. B. Yeats (1914)

Now all the truth is out,
Be secret and take defeat
From any brazen throat,
For how can you compete,
Being honor bred, with one
Who were it proved he lies
Were neither shamed in his own
Nor in his neighbors' eyes;
Bred to a harder thing
Than Triumph, turn away
And like a laughing string
Whereon mad fingers play
Amid a place of stone,
Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.

#Yeats #LeoDianeDillon

TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING
By W. B. Yeats (1914)

Now all the truth is out,
Be secret and take defeat
From any brazen throat,
For how can you compete,
Being honor bred, with one
Who were it proved he lies
Were neither shamed in his own
Nor in his neighbors' eyes;
Bred to a harder thing
Than Triumph, turn away
And like a laughing string
Whereon mad fingers play
Amid a place of stone,
Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.

#Yeats #Leo&DianeDillon

I think we're reaching Peak Second Coming. Ever since Joan #Didion quoted #Yeats's 1919 poem in 1968, the self-styled US "center" — people who believe only in moderation, including moderate fascism it seems — have been obsessed with its imaginary political geometry. You know the one: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold [...] The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity." A third of this #NYT opinion piece is occupied with the explaining how to apply this tiresome trope, including this gem of #pomo disorientation: "I've never interpreted the center in Yeats's poem to mean something like a politically moderate middle but rather a moral foundation, the ideological core of a nation and its people."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/opinion/free-speech-campus-universities-promising-news.html

#Yeats #williambutleryeats #poetry #LitStudies #stpatricksday2023 🍀

Who's Buried in Yeats' Grave?
#yeats #irish #IrishWriters #wbyeats #ireland #sligo #countysligo #Drumcliff #irishartist #irishwriter #irishhistory
https://youtu.be/UsCYiS769aI

#Yeats grave at St Columba's Church, #Drumcliff, County #Sligo

Since I'm seeing William Butler Yeats in my TL. Here's a green-tinted screenshot of a poem of his posted at the Poetry Foundation.

☘️
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49772/no-second-troy

#poetry #Yeats #AltText

My attempt at a #modern reading of #Yeats: “The Second Coming”

Things fall in place; as the centre begins to fold;
Cheer the #anarchists loosed upon the #world,
The blood-dimmed #pride of #billionaires is noosed, and everywhere
The #ceremony of #religion is drowned;
The #best have found conviction, while the worst
Are shunned with passionate intensity.

#FightBack

The Second Coming Launch

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
#yeats

if WB #Yeats was a #tarot card, what one would he be? #mysticism

@StephanieEsser

Es gibt so viele großartige Interpretationen von
"The Stolen Child" von W. B. Yeats.

Mein absoluter Favorit - so sphärisch, fragil und berührend - Anne Clark with Ulla van Daelen and Justin Ciuche ⬇️
https://youtu.be/SQ-rK4aPiNA

#AnneClark #Yeats #Songsonntag #Poem #Lyrik

The philosophy of #Yeats: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/06/13/yeats-self-and-anti-self/

Yeats esoteric, complex #PhilosophyOfHistory is explored on this website: https://www.yeatsvision.com/

"We have in Berkeley and in Burke a philosophy on which it is possible to base the whole life of a nation": from a speech given in 30 Nov. 1925 https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/06/13/yeats-literature-philosophy/

"After Yeats’ death I bought for a Jesuit library some of his fine volumes of Classical texts and secondary literature in Greens bookshop in Kildare Street. I do not remember if Stephen MacKenna’s translation of Plotinus On Beauty, which Yeats used extensively in his discourses to duchesses in London, was among them."

Irish philosopher #JohnOMeara muses on the appeal of neoPlatonism to the Irish.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/01/neoplatonism-irish-omeara/

#IrishPhilosophy #Yeats