...Woman Homer Sung. And what splendour of praise and censure Mr. Yeats gives us in The Second Troy :— Why should I blame her, that she filled my days With...men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets against the great, Had they but courage equal to desire ? What could have made her peaceful with a...

...shaken from the sieve ? I might have thrown poor words away And been content to live. NO SECOND TROY Why should I blame her that she filled my days With...nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightenedbow^ja kind That is not natural in an age like this, Being high and solitary and most stern?...

...Woman Homer Sung. And what splendour of praise and censure Mr. Yeats gives us in The Second Troy : — Why should I blame her, that she filled my days With...men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets against the great. Had they but courage equal to desire ? What could have made her peaceful with a...

...I'm past the entrance committee. Certainly keep the "Ballata." One of the Yeats' poems is as follows. Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery or that she would of late Have taught ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets against the great, Had they but courage...

...poet's development during his years in the theatre. Statement is now dramatically disguised as question: Why should I blame her that she filled my days With...upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire? One sentence contains Yeats's private and public charges against Maud Gonne, and implies that her behaviour...

...destructive sway to revolutionary politics, seeing her as beyond control and self-control, a force of nature: Why should I blame her that she filled my days With...late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways . . .? It is difficult not to feel that Yeats is projecting onto the Dublin masses his own inability...

...invests Maud Gonne in 'No Second Troy'. However, the arcs traced by the expansively romantic lines: What could have made her peaceful with a mind That...simple as a fire With beauty like a tightened bow, ... are locked firmly in place by the flatter, more monotone and driving lines that follow: 'a kind...

...raises the masses to greatness, turning every soldier to an epic hero (as Sorel believed myths would), she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most...ways, Or hurled the little streets upon the great. In other words, her advocacy of a socialist revolution threatens to destroy the very "high and solitary"...

...poem, which is more grounded in actual circumstances, Maud is portrayed as Yeats's unwitting torturer: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery" (7? 91; VP 256). In placing Maud on a pedestal for her heroic action and uncanny beauty, her power...

...Gonne. a woman engaged in a violent anti-colonial struggle, though you wouldn't know it from the poem: Why should I blame her that she filled my days With...peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a firc, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this. Being high...