William+Butler+Yeats



"There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't met"

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thin nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing"

"No likely end could bring them loss/Or leave them happier than before" (The Airman).

Background Information-sebastians1

Most Known Poems:

Three Literary Techniques: a) Metaphor- A [|figure of speech] in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or [|analogy] between them.

b) Repetition- Repeating a word or phrase to emphasize a point or idea. c) __Imagery-__ Mental images produced by figurative language.

1.When You Are Old:

WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And  __nodding by the fire__, take down this book, And  slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And  loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you , And  loved the sorrows of your changing face; And  bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And  paced upon the mountains overhead And  hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

Song: Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel

When you're weary, feeling small When tears are in your eyes, I'll dry them all (all) I'm on your side, oh, when times get rough And friends just can't be found Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down

When you're down and out When you're on the street When evening falls so hard I will comfort you (ooo) I'll take your part, oh, when darkness comes And pain is all around __ Like a bridge over troubled water __ I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind Like a bridge over troubled water I will ease your mind Like a bridge over troubled water I will ease your mind.

Three Literary Techniques: a) Repetition- Repeating a word or phrase to emphasize a point or idea.

b) Asyndeton- Omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses

c) __Personification-__ A divinity or imaginary being representing a thing or abstraction.

2. A Crazed Girl THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Her soul in division from itself __ Climbing, falling <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> She knew not where, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Heroically lost, heroically found.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">No matter what disaster occurred <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">She stood in desperate music wound <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, Wound, wound, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and she made in her triumph <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Where the bales and the baskets lay <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">No common intelligible sound <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea.'

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Song: Fly by Nicki Minaj ft. Rihanna

[Chorus: Rihanna] <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; text-align: center;"> I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise To fly To fly

// [Nicki Minaj:] // I wish today it will rain all day Maybe that will kinda make the pain go away Trying to forgive you for abandoning me Praying but I think I'm still an angel away Angel away, yeah strange in a way __ Maybe that is why I chase strangers away __ They got their guns out aiming at me But I become Neo when they're aiming at me Me, me, me against them Me against enemies, me against friends Somehow they both seem to become one A sea full of sharks and they all smell blood They start coming and I start rising Must be surprising, I'm just amazing I win, thrive, soar, higher, higher, higher More fire

// [Chorus: Rihanna] // I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise To fly To fly

// [Nicki Minaj:] // Everybody wanna try to box me in Suffocating every time it locks me in Painting their own pictures then they crop me in But I will remain where the top begins Cause I am not a word, I am not a line I am not a girl that can ever be defined I am not fly, I am levitation I represent an entire generation I hear the criticism loud and clear That is how I know that the time is near So we become alive in a time of fear And I ain't got no motherfucking time to spare Cry my eyes out for days upon days Such a heavy burden placed upon me But when you go hard your nay's become yay's Yankee Stadium with Jay's and Kanye's

// [Chorus: Rihanna] // I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise To fly To fly

// [Bridge: Nicki Minaj] // Get ready for it Get ready for it Get ready for it I came to win Get ready for it Get ready for it Get ready for it I came to win

I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise To fly To fly

Three Literary Techniques: a) Metaphor- A [|figure of speech] in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or [|analogy] between them. b) Imagery- Mental images produced by figurative language. c) __Personification-__ A<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> divinity or imaginary being representing a thing or abstraction.

3. He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But I, being poor, have only my dreams; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I have spread my dreams under your feet; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Tread softly because you __tread on my dreams__.

Song: Mean by Taylor Swift

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; text-align: center;">You, with your words like knives And swords and weapons that you use against me You have knocked me off my feet again Got me feeling like I'm nothing You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard Calling me out when I'm wounded You picking on the weaker man

__You can take me down with just one single blow__ But you don't know, what you don't know...

Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city And all you're ever gonna be is mean Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me And all you're ever gonna be is mean Why you gotta be so mean?

You, with your switching sides And your wildfire lies and your humiliation You have pointed out my flaws again As if I don't already see them I walk with my head down Trying to block you out 'cause I'll never impress you I just wanna feel okay again

I bet you got pushed around Somebody made you cold But the cycle ends right now 'Cause you can't lead me down that road And you don't know, what you don't know...

Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city And all you're ever gonna be is mean Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me And all you're ever gonna be is mean Why you gotta be so mean?

And I can see you years from now in a bar Talking over a football game With that same big loud opinion But nobody's listening Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things Drunk and grumbling on about how I can't sing But all you are is mean

All you are is mean And a liar, and pathetic, and alone in life And mean, and mean, and mean, and mean

But someday I'll be living in a big ol' city And all you're ever gonna be is mean, yeah Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me And all you're ever gonna be is mean Why you gotta be so?..

Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city (Why you gotta be so?..) And all you're ever gonna be is mean (Why you gotta be so?..) Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me (Why you gotta be so?..) And all you're ever gonna be is mean Why you gotta be so mean?

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