...men and civilizations are contrarious as the winds. The change in himself first arrests attention: What shall I do with this absurdity — O heart, O...Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? To this situation in which his imagination ironically seems as "excited-, passionate, fantastical"...

...transformation into the microscopic cheese-mite of the great cheese of the future. By WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. WHAT shall I do with this absurdity — O heart, O...— this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied upon me As upon a dog's tail. Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an...

...relentless decline leading toward the old age lamented by Yeats: What shall I do with this absutdity — O heart, O troubled heart — this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? ([1918] 1983, 144) Obviously such messages cannot be placed into direct prepositional conflict with...

...&rirami$agardhini (YV 1:22.25). 47. Consider Yeats' (1983) depiction of old age through similar metaphors: What shall I do with this absurdity — O heart, O...Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? "The Tower" An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick. "Sailing to Byzantium"...

...be determined by the poetic context. Like "Politics," "The Tower" opens with a rhetorical question: What shall I do with this absurdity — O heart, O...Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? (P 194) The syntactic devices are similar: rhetorical question, intrusion, multiple parallel objects...

...matter. Yeats says of his soul What shall I do with this absurdity— O heart, O troubled heart—this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? ("The Tower") 1984 12 February When they passed each other under the trees of the fogged-in park, the...

...motif. The title poem, which comes next, starts with an intemperate cursing at 'this absurdity . . . this caricature, / Decrepit age that has been tied to me /As to a dog's tail'. It goes on to contrast what it later calls 'the wreck of body, /Slow decay of blood, /testy delirium...

...the shaking tree As though I'da gun To strike you dead? (1. 1-5) FaPON; FM; PDV; RHPC The Tower 150 ider's kingdom; (1. 7—8) CoAP; LiTA; LiTM; WaP SIR CHARLES SEDLEY (1639- (1. 2-4) The Stolen Child 144 Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand...

...a necessity requires" (1954: 503), the conjunction of self and body Yeats describes in "The Tower," "decrepit age that has been tied to me / As to a dog's tail" (1971: 409). Kathleen Woodward, in her study of the late poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams,...

...Butler in 'I am of Ireland.' (I am reading his The Tower): What shall I do with this absurdity — Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail. I remember a riot in Harlem when I was quite young. My father's friend owned a men's clothing shop...