Sentences with phrase «yeats poem»

For this reason, and others, he and Hunter have worked hard to make Innisfree, which is named after the W. B. Yeats poem «The Lake Isle of Innisfree,» egalitarian.

He recited a Yeats poem in a thick Irish accent, smashed a coffee mug, and then began reading from the Cluetrain Manifesto, a decade - old Internet marketing treatise about the power of communities.

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In his poem, «The Cloths of Heaven,» WB Yeats writes: «I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.»

William Butler Yeats anticipated the mood of these times in his poem «The Second Coming»:

(As Yeats once said, «It gave me the devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems that I am going to read, and that is why I will not read them as if they were prose.»)

W.B. Yeats wrote in a famous poem about how «the center» no longer «holds,» about how «the good» lack «passionate intensity» while evil men and women have just such zeal, and how in the result things are «breaking up» wherever one looks.

It has become something of a cliche, I know, but no one ever put this sort of thing better than William Butler Yeats in his poem «The Second Coming.»

It's a really powerful, heart - in - mouth image which calls to mind W. B. Yeats» poem An Irish Airman Foresees His Death: there is the same sense of elegiac resignation in the fate of the pilots, who leave the horrors of the Earth behind to float forever in the skies they loved.

Having the picture turn on a decision made in consultation with a representative of an organization directly blocking a possible medical cure to paralysis is loaded at least — and probably deserving of a more careful combing over than a bad case of urban paranoia, a sad reference to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and a partial reading of Yeats's «The Lake Isle of Innisfree» — which, while a wonderful poem in and of itself, is a woeful and embarrassing anthem for a pair of kindred spirits (both older than, say, seventeen) yearning to be free.

Extras: Over two hours of additional commentaries and readings by dozens of celebrities; two songs based on Yeats» poems by: Bono «Mad as the Mist and Snow,» and Elvis Costello «A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety»; «Yeats Remembered» soundtrack by Pete Briquette; 73 poetry readings and 23 discussion pieces.

The short poems «Keeping Quiet» by Robert Bly, «The Balloon of the Mind» by William Butler Yeats, and «We Wear the Mask» by Paul Laurence Dunbar have all generated particularly rich discussions in my classroom.

It contains an original unseen poem by Anon, W.B Yeats «When You Are Old» and Alfred Lord Tennyson «Spring».

Display, in the Build tab of the Resource Carousel, the excerpt of W. B. Yeats» poem, «The Stolen Child.»

I understand that the novel was initially inspired by William Butler Yeats's poem, «The Stolen Child.»

The Stolen Child is inspired by the poem of the same name by W.B. Yeats (bio).

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At the end of his poem «Sailing to Byzantium,» W.B. Yeats, as he conjures a poetic afterlife, draws an absolute distinction between the «bodily form» of «any natural thing» and products of human artifice and craft that depend on such features as «hammered gold and gold enameling.»

A locally based artist will be the Center's focus with Nina Surel: Sailing to Byzantium, an allegory of aging loosely based around William Butler Yeats» poem, involving sculpture, installation, sound and video.

Poetry fascinated Guston, so the exhibition, comprising 50 paintings and 25 drawings made over the course of his life, will be arranged thematically according to the works» resonances with poems by T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Eugenio Montale, Wallace Stevens and W. B. Yeats.

In 1990, Diebenkorn produced a series of six etchings for the Arion Press edition of «Poems of W. B. Yeats», with poems selected and introduced by Helen VenPoems of W. B. Yeats», with poems selected and introduced by Helen Venpoems selected and introduced by Helen Vendler.

For Artist's Choice, Dean has selected a 1939 poem by W. B. Yeats and a passage from a 1995 novel by W. G. Sebald that both capture the elegiac spirit of the her own work.

The phrase invokes a wonderful couplet from late in «Byzantium,» a poem by William Butler Yeats, who in 1933 was ceremoniously contemplating «complexity» in a room at the top of a tower in Galway, the literary version of the ascetic space of the studio.

The works presented in this show have been inspired by two of Yeats's poems: «Sailing» to Byzantium» and «Byzantium».

Taken from William Butler Yeats» famous poem «Easter, 1916», the exhibition's title borrows from the Irish writer's seminal response to turn - of - the - century political events to site art's underused potential for commenting symbolically on the world's societal, cultural and economic triumphs and ills.

wrote W.B. Yeats in his poem «The Second Coming» (1919).

Cloths of Heaven I came across this poem last week by William Butler Yeats.