Re-Reading W. B. Yeats’s “The Statues”
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I try to differently re-read “The Statues.” Wilson sees it as Yeats’s worst poem in ottava rima, which I refute. It treats the movement of civilization, from Egypt to Greece, India, and Ireland, in finest form; it is intentionally asymmetrical. It is, in fact, one of Yeats’s finest achievements in his poetic work: in form, says Ellmann, it is like “bamboo shoots” he has drawn so many times he has no need to look at a bamboo, in content it is the heart of the philosophical system polished over the long span of his life. I also read Stallworthy’s and Jeffares’s transcriptions of the prose draft of this poem; Yeats did not seem to pay attention to the sentences, except for the ideas in it.
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I try to differently re-read “The Statues.” Wilson sees it as Yeats’s worst poem in ottava rima, which I refute. It treats the movement of civilization, from Egypt to Greece, India, and Ireland, in finest form; it is intentionally asymmetrical. It is, in fact, one of Yeats’s finest achievements in his poetic work: in form, says Ellmann, it is like “bamboo shoots” he has drawn so many times he has no need to look at a bamboo, in content it is the heart of the philosophical system polished over the long span of his life. I also read Stallworthy’s and Jeffares’s transcriptions of the prose draft of this poem; Yeats did not seem to pay attention to the sentences, except for the ideas in it.
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- Albright, Daniel, "W. B. Yeats: The Poems" (1990), J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
- Ellmann, Richard, "The Identity of Yeats" (1964), Faber and Faber
- Jeffares, Norman, "A New Commentary on The Poems of W. B. Yeats" (1984), The Macmillan Press Ltd
- Rhee, Young Suck, "The Architectonics of Form and Content in W. B. Yeats’s ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen", Foreign Literature Studies, 34(3), pp.16~28 (2012)
- Stallworthy, Jon, "Vision and Revision in Yeats’s “Last Poems”" (1969), The Clarendon Press
- Unterecker, John, "A Reader’s Guide to William Butler Yeats" (1972), Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Vendler, Helen, "Our Secret Discipline : Yeats and Lyric Form" (2007), Oxford UP
- Wilson, F. A. C., "The Statutes, In Yeats: Last Poems: A Casebook" (1968), Macmillan