"Adam's Curse" by W.B. Yeats (poetry reading)

[marthaflatley]

I think most girls do want exactly that kind of love. think of twilight, and edward's love for bella, so massively popular with young girls. I agree that you wonder what you have done to deserve a love like that and do feel like it's not about you, but that kind of love is still a lot nicer than an every day friendship. I wonder what maud gonne disliked and was unattracted to in yeats. why did she reject him so many times.

[thepassion10]

Hi Tom, I brought it up simply because in the books I have read it in the accent is no longer included. I have a similar problem with modern printings of Shakespeare's Sonnets. I find feeling the beat to be better than counting the beat. Also there is the thing of Yeat's using idiomatic Irish speech manners in his reading style. In that manner of speech the accent would fall on the e and r of learned rather than on the 2nd syllable of learned

[thepassion10]

I feel that learned looks refers to Yeat's understanding that he had learnt the ways of love which failed to win him Maud Gonne's Love rather than learn=ed as in Intellectual Understanding of Love and that what he was feeling in the Poem was the Experience of Love felt and spurned and that was what was important to him so I feel learned is the proper way to pronounce that word rather than learn-ed

[SpokenVerse]

@thepassion10 But then it wouldn't scan. It's an iambic pentameter.

[solarisqs]

Grand - and thanks for the James Wright audio link too. His reading is excellent as well.

[MiZTermi]

This is one of my favorites!