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And, as always, this acclaimed series features fascinating biographical information, introductions to each verse, and full annotations that define difficult unfamiliar vocabulary. Matching the beauty of Yeats' written images are a series of exquisite and evocative paintings, which range from panoramic natural landscapes to compelling portraits of characters both human and fantastic. Visions of a fierce and terrible battle-where "unknown perishing armies beat about my ears"-emerge in "The Valley of the Black Pig," all seen in a dream. In "The Stolen Child," fairies come in the night to entice a boy away forever to "where the wave of moonlight glosses the dim grey sands with light." Yeats claimed that a Greek folk song inspired "The Song of Wandering Aengus": the excerpt here follows Aengus on his quest to locate an enchanted girl. William Butler Yeats' writing captures all the magic and mystery of his native Ireland, and here are some 26 of his finest, most mesmerizing verses. It’s no wonder that he, like today’s Tarot enthusiasts, looked to the divination deck for answers.He was the finest modern poet in the English language-plus a playwright, theatre manager, politician, and passionate believer in supernatural. Throughout his career, Yeats showed a fascination with the contrasts between people’s internal and external selves, and a changing sense of his life’s purpose. Truths so vital, so intrinsic to our very nature, cannot with impunity be denied. According to Raine, who was writing in 1969, Yeats had foreseen people rebelling against the intellectual, and trying to tap into a more spiritual, vital, and groovier (hey, it was the Sixties) level of consciousness:Įven since Yeats pursued truths in his time and in our own so unfashionable, that revolt of the soul against intellect which he himself predicted has manifested itself in many ways, and the time of writing wears the aspect, even, of revolution among the younger generation, prepared to take the archetypal world by storm. But the occult influence remained in his work, in which one can detect hints of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Chaldean Oracles, and Blake’s Prophetic Books. In his later years, he became more interested in Irish nationalism and in the power of theater.
In the choruses of The Resurrection, Yeats writes of “that fierce virgin and her Star ” according to Raine, “The symbolic tradition to which the star belongs is that of the Tarot.” Raine dives deep into Yeats’s work to pinpoint other symbols he uses that derive from the Tarot-the Tree of Life, the Wheel of Fortune, the Tower, and the wandering fool.Įventually, disputes led to Yeats resigning from the Order. Raine points to the supernatural rituals evoked in his poem “All Souls’ Night” as being derived from the mysterious studies of the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn, its esoteric symbolism, and its promise of spiritual knowledge fed Yeats’s work.Īs Raine notes, at this point in his career Yeats had already begun to investigate the idea that “images well up before the mind’s eye from a deeper source than conscious or subconscious memory.” The Golden Dawn, its esoteric symbolism, and its promise of spiritual knowledge fed Yeats’s work. Waite and Pamela Colman-Smith grew out of their involvement with the Hermetic Society of the Golden Dawn-an Order to which Yeats also belonged. Tarot, a card deck used for divination and as a tool for self-reflection, is back in a big way. The New York Times reported last year that Tarot was trending, and interviewed a Tarot reader who said “that she has seen more customers of late seeking help connecting to their life purpose, rather than answers about their fate.” Tarot has also long informed poets, providing as it does “ a symbolic and interpretable language for the elusive shape of our lives.” The still widely-used Rider-Waite Tarot deck designed by A.E. But in the 1880s, he was a young aspiring writer living ascetically in London, and, as poet and scholar Kathleen Raine notes, one of his few possessions was “a Tarot Pack.” Widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats, born on June 13th, 1865, was the winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival.
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