 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 pages
...mire and blood, Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood, The golden smithies of the Emperorl Marbles of the dancing floor Break bitter furies of...images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. "Byzantium" turns out to be a poem not only about life and death but also about the balance sheet... | |
 | Joseph Adams - 1984 - 132 pages
...begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual mus1c all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect. (43) Marbles of the dancing floor Break bitter furies of...images beget That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. Here the situational distancing and the anaphoric contracting play against one another so as to... | |
 | F. R. Leavis - 1986 - 380 pages
...singe a sleeve. Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood, Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood, The golden smithies of the Emperor! Marbles...images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. The nature and significance of the bitterness come out in the offer to reduce the 'dolphin' itself... | |
 | John Beckwith, Richard Krautheimer, Slobodan Ćurčić - 1986 - 410 pages
...mire and blood. Spirit after spiritl The smithies break the ffood, The golden smithies of the Emperorl Marbles of the dancing floor Break bitter furies of...images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.1 There was, of course, a recurrent taste for classical allusion, a recurrent awareness of the... | |
 | Joseph McMinn - 1992 - 388 pages
...poem reads: Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood, Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood, The golden smithies of the Emperor! Marbles...images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.14 The poem had begun with the 'unpurged images of day' receding into night, where 'A starlit or... | |
 | Ronald Schleifer, Robert Con Davis, Nancy Mergler - 1992 - 300 pages
...violence of discourse, like so much of the violence of the world, presents, as Yeats said in old age, "bitter furies of complexity, / Those images that...images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea" (1971: 498). In Chapter 3 we offered the example of the ninety-year-old man who described the... | |
 | William V. Spanos - 1993 - 376 pages
...absoluteness): Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood, Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood, The golden smithies of the Emperor! Marbles...images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.36 For the postmodern Beckett, on the other hand, Yeats's aestheticmetaphysical circle of plenary... | |
 | the late M. L. Rosenthal - 1997 - 379 pages
...is endless: Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood, Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood, The golden smithies of the Emperor! Marbles...images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. The "sea" is the common life itself, "tormented" by the cathedral gong's summons from above to... | |
 | William T. Gorski - 1996 - 244 pages
...transcendence. Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood, Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood, The golden smithies of the Emperor! Marbles...complexity, Those images that yet Fresh images beget, That dolphin torn, that gong-tormented sea. (TP 249; VP 498) The antinomies return to a state of chaos,... | |
 | William T. Gorski - 1996 - 244 pages
...transcendence. Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood, Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood, The golden smithies of the Emperor! Marbles...floor Break bitter furies of complexity, Those images mat yet Fresh images beget, That dolphin torn, that gong-tormented sea. (TP 249; VP 498) The antinomies... | |
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An agony of trance, An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve. Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood, Spirit after spirit ! The smithies break the flood, The golden smithies of the Emperor! Marbles of the dancing floor Break bitter furies of complexity,... 
