William Butler Yeats Slept Here
Ireland is the land where everyone seems to have "the gift of gab." For a wordsmith like me, it was the perfect place. One of the sites that we visited was the Thoor Ballylee Yeats Centre. Yeats was a famous poet who was born in 1865 (the end of our American Civil War) and died in 1934. He was/is one of Ireland's most famous poets. He is one of the poets who helped create the Irish Literary Revival (think of it as similar to the Harlem Renaissance). He was also one of the poets who created the Abbey Theatre (National Theatre of Ireland) in Dublin. Yeats loved Irish folklore and occult. His poems are full of allusive imagery and symbolic structures. The photos in the slideshow were taken in Gort, Ireland at his last home in Ireland. The following lines are from "The Second Coming": Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, T...