Yeats Vs. Pound
William Butler Yeats and Ezra Pound are both keystones to the foundation of poetry. While both of them have different views, and write in different styles. Both have written love poems, and both have included religious references in these poems. Do the poets have an understanding of what "love" is? Does the poet consider religion to tie into the idea of love? The poems "When You Are Old" by Yeats and "Dance Figure" by Pound are examples of these poets love poems that carry religious references."When you are old" is one of the many love poems directed to Maud Gonne. W.B. Yeats love interest throughout his life. "When you are old" is more than a love poem though. It is a poem confessing his true infatuation with her."...How many loved your beauty with love false or true/ but one man loved the pilgrim soul in you" This is to tell her that he is the only man that loves her for more than her exterior aesthetic beauty but he is there to love her soul, her personality, her intentions and her troubles. He is telling her that "when you are old and gray..." he will still love her the same or more than he did when she was young. Gary Geddes writes about W.B. Yeats "Yeats had no use for sloppiness of sentiment or expression. He was an
Pound uses the "tree-at-the-river" to bring strength to the importance of the location as well as the religious meaning. "Dance figure contains many references to the bible. " 'Mountains overhead' and 'hiding amid a crowd of stars' are simply analogies of the spirit world or Heaven, which humankind has often perceived as being 'up in the sky and amid the stars'. It has been identified with the modern Kana el-Jelil, also called Khurbet Kana, a place 8 or 9 miles north of Nazareth. The woman is a dancer in the ceremonies of the wedding. Pound has shown us directly that he wanted us to find biblical references in his poem, which is pounds style of poetry, a confrontational style while still being masked and filtered to create a beauty to his poem. Also pound mentions the "Tree-at-the-river" which is the birthplace of Nathanael. " An artistic shape that allows Yeats to confess his feelings with such a fluid grace. She is nothing to the narrator except an object of passion. The poem is a love poem for a woman that the narrator has be seduced by. In the subtitle "Marriage in the Cana of Galilee" pound is referring to a town of Galilee, near Capernaum. It is called "Cana of Galilee," to distinguish it from Cana of Asher. Yeats may also have made an inference that the older woman and her passed on lover are soul mates. Yeats is true in his words that he is in love with this woman and he will love her until the end of time.
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