The tower (poem)
The Tower (Original title: The Tower ) is a poem by the Irish poet and Nobel Prize for Literature William Butler Yeats . It was written in 1926 and published in 1928 with other poems in the volume of poetry The Tower .
Like the 1927 Sail to Byzantium , Yeats deals with the problems of aging in a spiritual as well as emotional way.
Structure and style
The tower consists of three parts and a total of 19 stanzas of different verse lengths. Meter and rhymes are free, but both occur again and again with concentration.
Yeats wrote one of his most difficult poems, The Tower , which was partly influenced to become friends with the modernist Ezra Pound . Free verse and fragmentary descriptions make The Tower Yeats' transition to modernity .
content
The first part of the poem is about dissatisfaction with the body and the mental state of being more willing than ever to throw oneself into life. One becomes incapable through the body, although the spirit is still young and willing.
The second part, which contains 13 of the 19 stanzas, is about a kind of film of life. Different stories and situations and people go through the head of the lyric self .
In the again short third part, something like a last will and testament is drawn up and the idea of the willing spirit is continued in the weak flesh.