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... Yeats, as is well known, had regarded the populist ideologies sweeping the world with profound suspicion. ... Yeats, clearly, witnessed the death of the world he had loved--death by a hideous, rapidly degenerative disease in which respect for nobel dilettantes gives way to ruthless, businesslike jacobins. ... " "The whiteness, the moon and the wave, taken together-- and the last melancholy cry-- evoke an emotion which cannot be evoked by any other arrangement of colors and sounds and forms," said Yeats, responding to the poem.
Yeats owes his eternal greatness to his use of symbols and allusions. ...
Notice how objective Yeats is! ... " "The whiteness, the moon and the wave, taken together-- and the last melancholy cry-- evoke an emotion which cannot be evoked by any other arrangement of colors and sounds and forms," said Yeats, responding to the poem.
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