anamnua
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Tue Apr-22-08 10:44 PM
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Yeats and the Hillary Clinton phenomenon |
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'All changed, changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born' Easter 1916
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BleedingHeartPatriot
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Tue Apr-22-08 10:47 PM
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1. You're kidding? Yeats is context and you provide none. |
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I was looking forward to at least one verse of prose and, well,
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Hope08
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Tue Apr-22-08 10:55 PM
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2. I prefer the following verse ... |
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"That woman's days were spent In ignorant good will, Her nights in argument Until her voice grew shrill."
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Tue Apr-22-08 10:57 PM
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3. It's almost as if Yeats had a vision of the Hope 'n Change Brigade! |
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the worst are full of passionate intensity
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Catherina
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Tue Apr-22-08 11:01 PM
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4. Here's the Yeats verse for Hillary |
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Edited on Tue Apr-22-08 11:10 PM by Catherina
I rename this excerpt
OBLITERATION
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all around it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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Tue Apr-22-08 11:10 PM
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5. Yeats and a mushroom cloud. |
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