Wednesday, May 16, 2001
Sixteen Dead Men Comments
Rating: ★2.8
O BUT we talked at large before
The sixteen men were shot,
But who can talk of give and take,
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William Butler Yeats
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Michael Morgan
25 October 2014
another fine-sounding Yeats poem that leaves you uncertain about what he's saying politically. Even his Casement poem makes the horrible denouement sound like a case of regrettable overkill. Only after the Easter Uprising does he seem to commit fully to the Irish cause.
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7/29/2025 9:48:09 AM # 1.0.0
too many issues to make a stand for one