{"id":2444,"date":"2015-12-18T01:48:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T01:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2015-12-27T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T11:03:21","slug":"dawn-breaks-as-yeats-goes-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/dawn-breaks-as-yeats-goes-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Breaks as Yeats Goes to Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Yeats died before the outbreak of war, and his Nobel prizes and international fame was most seen through the Versailles era, with the illusion of peace unbroken while he was alive. Night and darkness is normally seen as negative, but the fire and light of war is shown here as horrific, and the dusk, darkness and sleep are seen as positive images for peace&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/239273121&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An age ended: he closed his eyes<br \/>\nWho of the time after death and before death<br \/>\nHad been the voice of its dreams<\/p>\n<p>His words were its vision:<br \/>\nHis verses its voice<br \/>\nHis lines the Art of the Age<\/p>\n<p>Of a peace as ace as the permanency of the night<br \/>\nThat gave way to a horrific dawn<br \/>\nOf violence and death &#8211; this blazing sun<br \/>\nOf a new day of war we thought we would never again see<br \/>\nWhen the soft rain of dusk that comforting fell<br \/>\nAt the signing of Versailles, smoke cleared, embers cooled<br \/>\nAs did passions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But notions stirred in the darkness, being its moonlight<br \/>\nThe world was drunk on peace, preached through poetry<br \/>\nHim being its voice, to whose words ears and eyes waltzed<br \/>\nUntil his eyes closing, the storm veils against Amergin was lifted<br \/>\nAs if the curses of a thousand druids came to pass<br \/>\nA continent crazed on the narcotic ambitions of another<br \/>\nThrew themselves into the frenzy of the new day<br \/>\nMore horrific than the last, the moon being the Baptist<br \/>\nTo the Messiah of the coming noon&#8230;<br \/>\nWhen the sun danced to the music of Mars<br \/>\nThe clay clotted in mans flowing blood<br \/>\nCorpses lay to fertilize a new generation of plants and trees<\/p>\n<p>But before they would get a chance to grow<br \/>\nAll knew there was coming a new disk<br \/>\nOn darkness falling, peace would come again<br \/>\n&#8211; Let us always live for the night! &#8211;<br \/>\nA world afraid to hope was too worried to wonder<br \/>\nOf the night to come, Yeats now gone, who would be its bard?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2446\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Walter-de-la-Mare-and-Bertha-Georgie-Hyde-Lees-Yeats-with-William-Butler-Yeats-and-an-unknown-woman-in-summer-1930-in-photo-by-Lady-Ottoline-Morrell.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Walter de la Mare and Bertha Georgie Hyde-Lees Yeats with William Butler Yeats and an unknown woman in summer 1930 in photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell\" width=\"1024\" height=\"705\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Walter-de-la-Mare-and-Bertha-Georgie-Hyde-Lees-Yeats-with-William-Butler-Yeats-and-an-unknown-woman-in-summer-1930-in-photo-by-Lady-Ottoline-Morrell.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Walter-de-la-Mare-and-Bertha-Georgie-Hyde-Lees-Yeats-with-William-Butler-Yeats-and-an-unknown-woman-in-summer-1930-in-photo-by-Lady-Ottoline-Morrell.jpg-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter de la Mare and Bertha Georgie Hyde-Lees Yeats with William Butler Yeats and an unknown woman in summer 1930 in photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell. Source : Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Glossary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>storm veils against Amergin &#8211; The druids made a storm to keep Amergins fleets at sea, but his incantations thwarted the storm. So too the speeches and alliances forged during peacetime on all sides, with Amergin being seen here as Hitler, and the Tuatha de Dannan in this context as the invaded peoples of Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeats died before the outbreak of war, and his Nobel prizes and international fame was most seen through the Versailles era, with the illusion of peace unbroken while he was alive. Night and darkness is normally seen as negative, but the fire and light of war is shown here as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,120,96,1904,233],"tags":[2564,2563,2354,2560,1909,2153,2561,2562,2559],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-non-rhyming-poems","category-war-poetry","category-world-war-ii","category-writers","tag-amergin","tag-build-up-to-second-world-war","tag-death","tag-death-of-william-butler-yeats","tag-hitler","tag-second-world-war","tag-the-inter-war-pears","tag-versailles-peace","tag-william-butler-yeats","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Dq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3083,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/salmon-fisherman-in-river-corrib\/","url_meta":{"origin":2444,"position":0},"title":"Salmon Fisherman in River Corrib","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"5th August 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"On taking a picture of salmon fishers at the Salmon Wier in the Corrib a few days ago, I thought of Yeats poem \"The Fisherman\"... and thought to write one for the fisherman of the modern age. 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