Thursday, May 17, 2001
The Statesman's Holiday Comments
Rating: ★4.3
I LIVED among great houses,
Riches drove out rank,
Base drove out the better blood,
And mind and body shrank.
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8/3/2025 10:10:32 AM # 1.0.0
Yeats wrote this poem from personal experience of having been a Senator in parliament. He seems to write satirically of the pompous men who occupied high positions in the state once. The last stanza, which has so much repetition of 'with' could refer to Yeats himself.