William Butler Yeats


	William Butler Yeats

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7-1-2009 12:46 AM

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beautiful, and free of the troubles of the human heart, and because the
natural is impermanent, fading, destined to decay, frequently ugly, and
troubled by pain and longing, Yeats consistently finds himself attracted
to the artificial, particularly when it is at its most beautiful. In the
Byzantium poems, Yeats glorifies a golden bird that is the apotheosis of
the relationship between nature and art: the bird takes its form from
nature, but it is not bound to "the fury and the mire of human veins." It
will last forever, and will never forget how to sing; and Yeats longs to
become it.
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