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Poetry of William Butler Yeats: The Wind Among The Reeds

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Yeats, William Butler

Yeats, William Butler
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Wind Among The Reeds

Introduction:

This section (published 1899) represents a kind of early climax for
Yeats, a kind of final ripening of his early style. As F. R. Leavis has noted,
". . . with The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) the dream-reality takes on a new
life, and the poet inhabits it surely. And although the imagery of the Celtic
Twilight is heavily worked - 'pale,' 'dim,' 'shadowy,' 'desolate,'
'cloud-pale,' 'dream-heavy,' - there is no languor or preciosity here. Indeed,
'passion-dimmed' and 'pale fire' are equally important in the ...

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