Wednesday, December 5, 2012

On Yeats 'A Terrible Beauty Is Born'

There is little doubt Yeats was a great poet his poems the best anthologies adorn
But i question the sentiments he expresses in one of his great poems 'A Terrible Beauty Is Born'
On the executions of the brave men by the British in Dublin three years from a century ago
That beauty can be  born out of suffering and death i do question this to be so?

That suffering and death can give  rise to beauty does not seem at all right to me
But then having that said it does seem we all look at life differently
In a glorious death Yeats could see beauty many with him in that would agree
But human blood shed by brave young men for Irish freedom the beauty in that i can't see

That beauty in any war can be born out of death and suffering to me  does not seem at all right
The violence in any war is far greater than the violence in any pub fight
I honestly cannot see any beauty in the blood dead and injured men bleed
Yeats idea of great beauty to me does seem puzzling indeed

A Terrible Beauty Is Born words on death from a great poem by Yeats
And doubtless that he was a great poet one of Ireland's true literary greats
But in suffering and death i cannot see the beauty and with that would you not agree
That beauty is in the eye of the beholder at least that's how it seems  to be.

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