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You are coherent, silver-tongued and so clearly educated. This video is priceless for students and poetry enjoyers alike, thank you!

What happened to no likely end could bring them loss or leave them happier than before

Glencar Lake (Lock Ghleann A’ Chairthe) is located north of Sligo in County Leitrim. Fed by Glencar Waterfall, it remains pristine and full of brown trout to this day. There are also remains of two early crannogs (man-made) island forts. In the 6th century, Saint Osnat, the sister of Saint Molaise of Devenish, founded a church here. “ Ghlean A’ Charthe” is Irish for “glen” or “valley of the rock”. This may have referred to a megalithic structure located near where the church of St. Osnat was first built. In 1886 when Yeats just 20 he wrote this poem while visiting Glencar.

There are actual historic-era criminal reports of native Irish families feeling defeated to the fate of their changeling, leaving their infants near sacred groves or springs hoping their true children would be returned. Some modern folklorists believe that changeling stories were cultural memories of native peoples who were driven into hiding by invaders. They suggest baby swapping had actually occurred - natives would exchange their own sickly children for the healthy children of the occupying invader to ensure survival. This was also a way occupying cultures further demonized the native cultures and justified occupation.

Please analyze cap and bells. Thanks.

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You have no clue what the poem is about!?!?! Are you kidding me?!? The poem is about how beautiful the world is to a child and yet at the same time how sad and evil it is. It’s a warning to children despite how beautiful and like a fantasy a fairy 🧚‍♂️ tale the world is it’s is more full of sadness pain evil and weeping than you can understand. In the end the child is not taken away by the fairy’s the child no longer sees the world as a fairy tale so his innocence is lost. My god you are so off track?!?

Didn't forget the title ! what a read !

The Keane song called A Bad dream was inspired by this poem

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At my Aunts wake my mother recited this hypnotic & timeless poem which remains and changes with age. I learned it in school but never really appricated its beauty till I got older. Thank you...

A good analysis especially of the form of the poem. However, the gentle Ms Dempster glosses over the real nitty gritty of the poem which is the airman’s feeling of the pointlessness of his life. That is the breathtaking revelation we are given at the end and it is preceded and worked up to by declarations expressing indifference to the enemy and to the country he is fighting for. Not even his affection for Kiltartan can keep him grounded to life.

Whoa!..... too sterile and too methodical/analytical for such a beautiful poem... Mr Yeats had a love of Ireland and its mystical world of folklore and our ancient culture it's not about stanzas it's about the ancient beliefs of the ancient Irish people and how they believed in the power of the fairies and of their fears ...

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Yeats reflection on the Irish folklore that the faeries the Irish thought would steal the boy children... Hence why up until the latter end of the 19th Century in some rural areas the locals dressed the boy children in dresses so as to fool the faeries that the boy child was a girl...

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An exceptional video!

Excellent video!

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Why have uh not explained the third stanza in detail?

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Great study. In this time of child trafficking and Epstien et al, there is a chilling relevance - written at the age of 20, Yeats really shows his greatness.

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Never lose the magic and mysticism of youth. I'm afraid one usually does. It can't survive in reality. Take the fairy's hand.

Did anyone else hear the fairy bells in the background at the begining when she's speaking, or is there something wrong with the sound, interesting, but a bit strange

You set my sails on a poetic journey that has led me to Byzantium. Many thanks. Richard. 68 years old. Canada.

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"reddest stolen cherries" refer to the loss of innocence when reaching sexual adulthood. The whole poem is a metaphor of stolen innocence as we grow to be adults, professor. Greetings from Egypt.

Ah. Thank you. From a Canadian of Scottish, English lineage. You introduced me to W.B. a debt I can never pay in full.

Will you do some more please, these are invaluable. Thank you.

i wish you could do this over without the ear shattering racket in the background. I guess its birds or crickets. i don't know. in nature they are nice. but through a speak or earphones they are distracting and painful and damned impossible to tune out.

I've loved this poem for much of my life. Not being an academic, I've always had my own understanding of it's meaning which, I must say, departs from your understanding considerably. Poetry speaks it's truth to the individual, and I understand the temptation to stand back from The Stolen Child and analyze it to pieces, and in the process render it lifeless. The faery is calling the child back to the real world. The human world is a construct of beliefs almost entirely based on fear and greed. Defining as we do, categorizing as we do, distancing ourselves form the vary fountain of our being and in the process ruining nearly everything we touch. If there is anything sinister about this poem, it's the sinister weeping world, weeping at the results of it's own folly and self destruction, weeping as it experiences wrenching self pity. Yes, come away oh human child, to the waters and the wild. Leave the weeping world to it's demise, brought about by it's own hand. It's too much for any human child to understand, no matter our age.

beautiful poem and beautiful glencar on leitrim sligo border

Still here 11 months later. I grow older but you don't. Love always, Richard in Canada dreaming of you sweet warm embrace.

You fueled a interest in poetry I always meant to but never did. "while they sleep uneasy" Personally I have a crush on you. Your accent, your tidy beauty. Richard in Canada.

The poem needs no analysis. It is what it is to each individual and stirs the emotions of everyone in a different way. Analysis and dissection of such a work as much as it is "normal" I always feel takes away from the magic that is conjured up from the imagination of the individual. The real beauty of such a work is what is stirred up from inside and from the emotion that is derived for each individual person in a way that is personal for them. Who can say that such analysis and opinions are correct from the educated and critical mob. Enjoy this work for what it is . Personally to me, this brings inner peace and the albeit non existent mystical sanctuary where all life's troubles are left behind. Perhaps this is a vision of life after death. Who can say? There are no right or wrong answers for what is inspired from the imagination.

Would love to hear an analysis of Yeat's "Second Coming"

Thank you Ms Dempster.

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Fantastic! Do you review writing work for authors? Really love this! Well done!

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Your lovely clarity and the warmth of his words keeps me coming back for more. Hazel you are the temptress stealing me away from this world a paradise wasted on Man.

Fate ... An important word in Yeats' spiritual vocabulary.. Yeats senses Robert's calmness as being sourced in the resignation to his destiny. Having spent some time with 'Byzantium", I'm more persuaded in my thinking about the spiritual richness in the poem and less by the romantic attributions made in the video. I felt spiritually elevated by the clarity and balance of the poems last four lines; I had strong sensation of lightness and transition into another realm. Yeats' magic in verse is to be experienced and less understood.

Ms. Dempster. The Song of Wandering Aengus by Yeats describes my Love for You. Richard Leighton in Canada. May Romance treat you kindly.

I have pondered for many years if I could ever fall in love again? Now I know.

I love your work. Have you stopped or moved on? rmleighton@gmail.com June 2019.

Please do more of these. They are so helpful and interesting!