JPablo
October 14, 2010, 07:45 PM
The context of it is here. (By William Butler Yeats)
http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Yeats/Circus.htm
Anyone has a good translation for it into Spanish?
Any interpretation of the sentence?
Any comments?
(Actually the line, in another place is with hyphens)
The foul-and-bone shop of the heart
I found this comment in the net as well, (I kind of get the idea but a literal interpretation of what he is actually saying will help me!)
"The final lines from Yeats's very late poem, 'The Circus Animals Desertion' are often quoted as evidence that here, at last, the poet sees through his own enchantment with dreams and images, and after a long career of pursuing them now turns in a radically new direction—inwards, to a more humanly gritty response to the world. But has there ever been a more sensational promise to lie down? We all have hearts, presumably, but only Yeats can call up a 'foul rag-and-bone shop' of one at the very instant when he claims to be bidding farewell to "masterful images." It was a fitting way to end his career of not lying down."
Ah, I also found the "rag and bone man" in Wikipedia... so everything starts to make more sense to me, but any answers and comments are still welcome. (Awesome poetry, of this 'kid'... Yeats!)
http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Yeats/Circus.htm
Anyone has a good translation for it into Spanish?
Any interpretation of the sentence?
Any comments?
(Actually the line, in another place is with hyphens)
The foul-and-bone shop of the heart
I found this comment in the net as well, (I kind of get the idea but a literal interpretation of what he is actually saying will help me!)
"The final lines from Yeats's very late poem, 'The Circus Animals Desertion' are often quoted as evidence that here, at last, the poet sees through his own enchantment with dreams and images, and after a long career of pursuing them now turns in a radically new direction—inwards, to a more humanly gritty response to the world. But has there ever been a more sensational promise to lie down? We all have hearts, presumably, but only Yeats can call up a 'foul rag-and-bone shop' of one at the very instant when he claims to be bidding farewell to "masterful images." It was a fitting way to end his career of not lying down."
Ah, I also found the "rag and bone man" in Wikipedia... so everything starts to make more sense to me, but any answers and comments are still welcome. (Awesome poetry, of this 'kid'... Yeats!)