Thursday, May 17, 2001

The Shadowy Waters Comments

Rating: 4.3

I walked among the seven woods of Coole:
Shan-walla, where a willow-hordered pond
Gathers the wild duck from the winter dawn;
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William Butler Yeats
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Sylvia Frances Chan 28 July 2023

For me is this poem 5 Stars full and To My Favourites.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 28 July 2023

ONE: This psycho-spiritual conception of the relations between the individual, the other, and reality itself have a profound effect on all of Yeat's aesthetic works, but can be particularly felt in his verse drama 'The Shadowy Waters'. Typical for the works of William Butler Yeats

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Ray Burleigh 20 April 2016

This is one of those poems which, if you love him, you love his music and his love of wandering over the hills, saying the poem to himself. It is a wonderful picture in the midst of the darkness of Ireland that this man could find such beauty, such peace in the silence of the glens.

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Amar Agarwala 20 April 2016

A poem of great imagery and depth.

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Lupee Awe 20 April 2016

Nature favours you

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Akachukwu Lekwauwa 20 April 2016

on reading this poem the second time, I admired the beautiful scenery of this shadowy waters

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* Sunprincess * 20 April 2016

......I like the imagery of nature ★

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Edward Kofi Louis 20 April 2016

Where the wild bees fling! Thanks for sharing.

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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

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