William Butler Yeats: A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety

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A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety

William Butler Yeats, William Butler Yeats poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Primal/Tribal/Shamanic poetry

by William Butler Yeats
(1865 - 1939) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic

Primal/Tribal/Shamanic : Celtic

20th Century

Come swish around, my pretty punk,
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill.

Sobriety is a jewel
That I do much adore;
And therefore keep me dancing
Though drunkards lie and snore.
O mind your feet, O mind your feet,
Keep dancing like a wave,
And under every dancer
A dead man in his grave.
No ups and downs, my pretty,
A mermaid, not a punk;
A drunkard is a dead man,
And all dead men are drunk.

Themes

Death

Wine

Recommended Books

	Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: Th Cuchulain Cycle of W. B. Yeats, by Barton R. Friedman
	Autobiography of W. B. Yeats, by W. B. Yeats
	Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and the Occult, by Leon Surette
	Blackwell Critical Biographies #12: The Life of W. B. Yeats, by Terence Brown
	A Book of Irish Verse, by William Butler Yeats

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