I've always thought that Yeats addressed this poem to Maud Gonne, and that Yeats thought himself the "one man" who really loved her, despite her marriage to McBride and her other romantic entanglements.
I have always wondered about the verse "one man loved the pilgrim soul in you". Who is this "one man"? I keep thinking he means Christ but Yeats wasn't Christian.
@strickdan44 On the contrary, Yeats was Anglo-Irish, from the Ascendancy class, who spoke with an English accent. All his friends, such as Constance Gore-Booth, (Countess Markevitch) came mainly from this upper class and "talked posh"!
@eireisthebest The narrator does not have an 'upper-class' English accent at all, he is well spoken, yes but the accent is neutral-if you want to hear a so-called upper class accent, listen to Prince Charles, or any Royal family; this man sounds nothing like that. Britain has hundreds of accents and dialects, speaking clearly and with diction is not 'upper class'.
I've always thought that Yeats addressed this poem to Maud Gonne, and that Yeats thought himself the "one man" who really loved her, despite her marriage to McBride and her other romantic entanglements.
janpmorris 2 months ago
I have always wondered about the verse "one man loved the pilgrim soul in you". Who is this "one man"? I keep thinking he means Christ but Yeats wasn't Christian.
nieuwbooy 2 months ago
Oh how beautiful....
'One man loved the pilgrim soul in you...'
paljim24 2 months ago
You are all posh idiots! "The words" listen to the damn words, idiots!
SensieSanzashi 3 months ago
I want those glasses.
anotherkindofcold 3 months ago
This is precisely what he sounded like: W.B. Yeats Reading His Own Verse on You Tube.
aeiou99999 3 months ago
Of course, Yeats was Irish, so did not have an "English" accent, at all.
strickdan44 5 months ago
@strickdan44 On the contrary, Yeats was Anglo-Irish, from the Ascendancy class, who spoke with an English accent. All his friends, such as Constance Gore-Booth, (Countess Markevitch) came mainly from this upper class and "talked posh"!
ha6ni6el6 4 months ago 2
Why is it that every reading of Yeats' poems are read by the typical voice of upper class england?
eireisthebest 8 months ago 2
@eireisthebest
Because:
A They are Engilsh.
B That is how HE spoke.
kend16 6 months ago
@eireisthebest The narrator does not have an 'upper-class' English accent at all, he is well spoken, yes but the accent is neutral-if you want to hear a so-called upper class accent, listen to Prince Charles, or any Royal family; this man sounds nothing like that. Britain has hundreds of accents and dialects, speaking clearly and with diction is not 'upper class'.
GalaxyHorse 6 months ago