...37), and a sculptural parallel exists m Michelangelo's Pieta (Figure 38). Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest; Let the Irish vessel lie emptied o( its poetry. Figure 37. "In memory of WB Yeats." WH Auden. VerM III. Colleeted Shorter Poems. 1927-1957...

...For poetry makes nothing happen: (1. 36) 42 it survives, A way of happening, a mouth. (1. 40—41) 43 (1. 42^*5) 44 Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and...

...and loathing of tyrants and their creatures made a deep mark on the political thought of future ages. Of the brave and innocent. And indifferent in a week...Worships language and forgives Everyone by whom it lives. W. H . AUDEN In memory of WB Yeats* Men and dynasties pass, but style abides. SIR RONALD SYME Tacitus**...

...assigned a political label, an "Irish vessel," but his "poetry" springs free from any such category: Earth, receive an honoured guest; William Yeats is...rest: Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. Though Yeats has been an honored guest among the living, he now, like Gregory the Great, must return...

...busy griefs, Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives, 40 A way of happening, a mouth. 11 Earth, receive an honoured guest: William Yeats is...rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark. And the living nations wait. Each sequestered...

...tetrameters of the last section move with the measured tread of a marcia funebre or the Celtic coronach: Earth, receive an honoured guest; William Yeats is...rest: Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. Auden 's Collected Poetry (1976) merits the accolade Eliot bestowed on Pound's Selected Poems: "This...

...the force of which taken together gives it the drumbeat of a funeral march: Earth, receive an honored guest, William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie, Emptied of its poetry. The effect of the changing form in each section is to emphasize the changing themes, from nature and...

...die in ; it surrives, A way of happening, a mouth. -IIIEarth, receive an honoured gues t ; Hilliam Yeats is laid to rest ; Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetn\ Time that is intolerant Of the brave and innocent And indifferent in a week To a beautiful physique,...

...writher, May your limbs never wither, May the eyes in your face Survive the green ice Of envy's mean gaze Earth, receive an honoured guest; William Yeats is...rest: Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. The command as a direct order, a vigorous call to action, is technically termed "proclees. " Burn off...

...(1819-1891) US poet, editor. "Poe and Longfellow," I. 1216, A Fable for Critics (1848). Poetry and Poets 1 Earth, receive an honoured guest: William Yeats is...rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. WH (WYSTAN HUGH) AUDEN, (1907-1973) Anglo-US poet. "In Memory of WB Yeats," Another 7/me(1940). 2 It...