The narrator of this poem laments the loss of the art of Callimachus, going on to say that "all things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay." The beginning of World War II is reflected as "Aeroplane and Zeppelin will come out / Pitch like King Billy bomb-balls in / Until the town lie beaten flat." "Every accidental crack or dent / Seems a watercourse or an avalanche" according to this poem, in which "long-legged bird" flies above "two Chinamen." Featuring the appeara
The narrator of this poem laments the loss of the art of Callimachus, going on to say that "all things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay." The beginning of World War II is reflected as "Aeroplane and Zeppelin will come out / Pitch like King Billy bomb-balls in / Until the town lie beaten flat." "Every accidental crack or dent / Seems a watercourse or an avalanche" according to this poem, in which "long-legged bird" flies above "two Chinamen." Featuring the appearances of Lear, Ophelia, and Cordelia, this is, for ten points, which poem by William Butler Yeats about an engraved gemstone?
The narrator of this poem laments the loss of the art of Callimachus, going on to say that "all things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay."
“{Lapis Lazuli}”