W.B.+Yeats

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=W.B. Yeats=

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He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
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Were you but lying cold and dead, And lights were paling out of the West, You would come hither, and bend your head, And I would lay my head on your breast; And you would murmur tender words, Forgiving me, because you were dead: Nor would you rise and hasten away, Though you have the will of wild birds, But know your hair was bound and wound About the stars and moon and sun: O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.

1. What is Yeats trying to portray in this poem? What could have caused Yeats to portray what he does? 2. Why does Yeats chose to describe lights as "paling"? What effect does this give the poem?

Peace
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Ah, that Time could touch a form That could show what Homer's age Bred to be a hero's wage. 'Were not all her life but storm, Would not painters paint a form Of such noble lines,' I said, 'Such a delicate high head, All that sternness amid charm, All that sweetness amid strength? 'Ah, but peace that comes at length, Came when Time had touched her form.

1. What is the "Time" that Yeats is referring to? 2. What is the point that Yeats is trying to get across in this poem?