 | John William Cunliffe - 1920 - 366 pagine
...At the end of 'Responsibilities' (1916) he seems to take leave of Celtic mythology in 'A Coat': — "I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies Prom heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eye As though they'd wrought it.... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1922 - 390 pagine
...murmurs into his ear, Head upon shoulder leant : " My dear, my dear, oh dear, It was an accident." A COAT I MADE my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out...; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it For there's more enterprise In walking naked.... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - 1925 - 778 pagine
...and The Wild Swans of Coolc. There may be . . . . more enterprise In walking naked than in wearing a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat. I am not sure, nor am I sure that Yeats has not made his song another coat, or several of them —... | |
 | Paul de Man - 2000 - 344 pagine
...which Yeats will later identify, derisively but explicitly, as representing his early emblematic style ("I made my song a coat / Covered with embroideries / Out of old mythologies / From heel to throat"—Var., p. 320). Cuchulain himself has received it from his solar father, as emblems are inherited... | |
 | Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 534 pagine
...those who had contributed to New Songs, but he also appeared publicly to repudiate his own poetry. I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out...throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.9... | |
 | David Kolb - 1992 - 240 pagine
...allegorical (or symbolical). —Friedrich Creuzer, uniting to his lover, the poet Karolinevon Giinderode. 2 I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out...throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagine
...FaBoTw; LiTB; MAT; MoP; NAEL-2; NAWM-2; NIP; NoAM; NOBE; NOIV; NoP; OAEL-2; OxBTC; Prim; TEP A Coat 30 h to die. (1. 1-16) FaBoEE; InvP; MeLP; MePo; NAEL-1; NoP; PoE; PoRA; (1. 1-3) 31 Song, let them take it. For there's more enterprise In walking naked. (1. 8-10) Yeats POETRY... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pagine
...recover. The aesthetic imperative links these clinical utterances with the myth-laden language of Yeats: 'I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out...throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it.' (A Coat 1950, 142) This minor digression illustrates the precision... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 242 pagine
...he is that hero, he will remain a powerful presence to be reckoned with. Part Two MANY-MOODED MAN / made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out...throat; But the fools caught it. Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.... | |
 | David Spooner - 1995 - 124 pagine
...inherited the conception of a new simplicity from Yeats's 'A Coat' in his collection Responsibilities (1914): I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries...throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.4... | |
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I MADE my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked. 
