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A Crazed Girl by William Butler Yeats

10/15/2008 5:18:53 PM
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William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939)
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A Crazed Girl
 
  THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,

Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.

No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea.'

William Butler Yeats


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Tai Chi Italy (11/3/2007 7:32:00 PM)
I know this girl! What a fantastic poem. smiling in a crazy kind of way...Tai
quercus ... (2/12/2007 2:41:00 PM)
Passion for something or someone we love at times may go hand in hand with madness - some kind of temporary state of excessive excitement which enables us to face most difficult challenges and meet them exploring our talents and capabilities...
I believe THAT crazed girl was seen in the moment of creating something she was passionate about. It was the moment of an artistic ecstasy pushing her into another state – the state of an extreme concentration which made her become insensitive to everything that surrounded her… I find this write rather beautiful…Awesome work :)

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