A Last Confession Comments

This poem was selected the Classic Poem of the Day on 28 July 2018. And again repeated today,27 June 2022. Has PoemHunter run out of its resources to repeat this poem so frequently?

Wonderful rendition of words. A work of an intricate mind

As a discussion of sensuality and between men and women, tis very honest. I was a little surprised that it was written in the age that it was. But I am glad he wrote this

I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes. But when this soul, its body off, Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows, .....soul goes alone awithout body is so true. A beautiful poem well written by William Butler Years.

A Last Confession by the greatest of poets. A metaphor of life lived and death, when it comes.

Congratulations as Classic Poem Of The Day to the family and descendants of William B Butler Yeats in Ireland and around the globe. A Last Confession....his poem says it all. Thank you to Poem Hunter Team to have chosen his poem as Classic Poem Of The Day..Yeats is here crystal clear to tell us that he still has A Last Confession, in the way as he sees that: he dismisses Agape, Spiritual Love and chose Eros.

.......not exactly sure what this poet is trying to say...maybe his message is love one another..

In answer to his rhetorical question, Yeats here dismisses agape, spiritual love, in favour of eros. The lover thinks that body and soul are one, but the woman knows better.The key lines come in the third verse when the poet states that the soul can only be reached through the body. Once revealed, the insight into the uniqueness of the individual is both priviledged -and magical.