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D I K T S P A L T E N
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin buil there, of clay and
wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the
honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace
comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to
where the cricket sings;
There midnight`s all a glimmer, and noon a
purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet`s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and
day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by
the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the
pavements gray,
I hear the deep heart`s core.
WHEN YOU ARE OLD
When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Willian Butler Yeats (1865-1939) kom fra
en protestantisk middelklasse familie i
Dublin.
Faren var en begavet portrettmaler. Han
nærte suveren forakt for pedantisk lærdom
og tok guttens skolegang lett,men oppdro
han i stedet med høytlesing av sine
yndlingsdiktere.
Yeats voks opp i en turbulent tid med stadig
økende irsk nasjonalisme og motstand mot
engelsk styre, og han ble aktiv forkjemper
for irsk selvstendighet.
En viktig del av Yeats` nasjonalisme var
hans kjærlighet til det irske landskapet.
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows
deep;
How many loved your moments of glad
grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or
true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing
face.
And bending down beside the lowing bars
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
THE SORROW OF LOVE
The quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves,
the full round moon and the star-laden sky,
And the loud song of the ever-singing
leaves,
had hid away earth`s old and weary cry.
And then you came with those red
mournful lips,
And with you came the whole world`s
tears,
And all the trouble of her labouring ships,
And all the trouble of her myriad years.
And now the sparrows warring in the eaves,
The curd-pale moon, the white stars in the
sky,
And the loud chaunting of the unquiet
leaves,
hans kankje mest berømte dikt," The Lake
isle of Innisfree", gir uttrykk for den
hjemlengsel til fri natur som han opplevde
så sterkt da han bodde i et snuskete lite
forstadshus i London.
I tillegg til poesi skrev han flere skuespill,
men det er som en av dette århundrets
største lyrikere han er mest kjent,- og legg
merke til musikken i diktene - - -.