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Poetry of William Butler Yeats: The Only Jealousy Of Emer

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

Yeats, William Butler
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Only Jealousy Of Emer

The Only Jealousy of Emer directly follows the close of On Baile's
Strand and picks up the story of Cuchulain's fight with the sea. He is thrown
up out of the waves as an image of his own self, and though he is apparently
dead, his wife, Emer, and his mistress, Eithne Inguba, attempt to call him
back from the other world, the realm of the dead. Through the intercession of
a spirit from the Country-under-Wave, the Figure of Cuchulain, who takes the
place of the hero's body on the bed, Emer is allowed to see the Ghost of
...

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