This poem mentions a previously-written play whose protagonist sells her soul to save her serfs from a famine, as one of the many "old themes" its author cannot "but enumerate.
This poem mentions a previously-written play whose protagonist sells her soul to save her serfs from a famine, as one of the many "old themes" its author cannot "but enumerate." That reference is sandwiched between ones to "that sea-rider" Oisin and Cuchulain's fight against "the ($) ungovernable sea" when "the Fool and Blind Man stole the bread." This poem "grew in pure mind" out of "a mound of refuse or the sweepings of the street," though its author must now "lie down where all ladders start / In the (*) foul rag and bone shop of the heart." For ten points, identify this W.B. Yeats poem.
This poem mentions a previously-written play whose protagonist sells her soul to save her serfs from a famine, as one of the many "old themes" its author cannot "but enumerate.
“The {Circus Animals’ Desertion}”