This poem's speaker calls on an "old lecher with a love on every wind" who has "reckoned up every unforeknown, unseeing plunge...into the labyrinth of another's being.
This poem's speaker calls on an "old lecher with a love on every wind" who has "reckoned up every unforeknown, unseeing plunge...into the labyrinth of another's being." Re畔lecting on the songs of blind men, this poem's speaker prays, "O may the moon and sunlight seem one inextricable beam, for if I triumph I must make men mad." In this poem, the phrase "half-mounted man" derives from Jonah Barrington, from whom the author also takes the anecdote of Mrs. French and the farmer's clipped ears. This poem's speaker determines to make his soul study until "wreck of body" and "slow decay of blood" seem but "a bird's sleepy cry among the deepening shades." This poem begins by asking, "What shall I do with this absurdity...decrepit age that has been tied to me as to a dog's tail?" Its second section describes the speaker "pac[ing] upon the battlements" of the title structure. For 10 points, name this title poem of a 1928 collection containing "Among School Children," "Leda and the Swan," and "Sailing to Byzantium," by William Butler Yeats.
This poem's speaker calls on an "old lecher with a love on every wind" who has "reckoned up every unforeknown, unseeing plunge...into the labyrinth of another's being.
"The Tower"