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sillykidssong (August 25, 2008 at 5:59 am)
nice job
louisalit (June 30, 2008 at 2:38 pm)
This is one of my absolute favorite poems. I was very disappointed at his reading, though.(Think I would have done it much better myself!) The Swedish translation of the poem, which I have, is also very beautiful
skanemermaid (June 13, 2008 at 5:07 am)
Re: Yeats's accent (1) He's reading a poem, and so probably is modulating his voice for the occasion. (Listen to an RTE newsreader's accent to get an idea of how even strong regional accents (Donegal) can be shifted to suit a more 'formal' speech register.(2) Accents a bit with time. (There's even a new D4 accent in Dublin now, that came around the same time as the Celtic Tiger).(3) For what it's worse, I swear I can hear a trace of a Galway accent on certain consonants - got from Lady G?
johnfinbarburke (April 24, 2008 at 11:00 pm)
eat ur heart out tony blair
AuburnGradAuburnMom (March 20, 2008 at 12:55 am)
If you have ever listened to a marsh in the evening, and heard the whippoorwills, crickets, and the droning of bullfrogs astheir sing their nightly serenade, you have been to Innisfree. Life is simple there;the colors of the evening and day skies touch deep into the heart and take with them all that ails the soul.
AuburnGradAuburnMom (March 20, 2008 at 12:52 am)
The 'Lake Isle of Innisfree' is my favorite poem of all time. "I hear it in the deep heart's core." The poem reflects what I have always felt, a yearning for peacefulness. Yeats has a constant longing for the tranqulity of the lake, of a "bee-loud glade" or a glimpse of the "linnet's wing". Peace, sweet peace and he knows exactly where to go to find peace. He hears it even when he's standing in a bustling town. Yeats himself said that this poem was influenced by Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden'.
bafr1 (February 23, 2008 at 11:16 am)
nice one
roadtorinpoche (January 18, 2008 at 5:22 am)
I think the confusion in regards to his accent lies in the fact that he read this poem, in particular, in verse. He refused to read in prose style as he had worked so hard to get it into verse in the first place. So, the fact that the last parts of the lines do not drop off in tone may make him sound as though he has less of the (lovely) Irish sing-song to his accent.
UISTMAN59 (January 2, 2008 at 8:32 pm)
I think the style of reading is very similar to that of Sorley MacLean, the graet scottish Gaelic poet. Interesting
rrrorkk (November 24, 2007 at 3:29 pm)
In response to some earlier comments yeats accent is more of an educated Irish accent rather than a british one. Not every Irish person says begorrah and top o the mornin to ye, in fact none of them do. |
