Yeats Is Yeats is By No Means Keats Poem by Sylvia Frances Chan

Yeats is Yeats
is by no means Keats

Keats wandered in the dreams of Romanticism
while Yeats walked in the truths of Realism
truth remained truth
in the honest light of their era

Yeats' psycho-spiritual conception of
the relations between
the individual, the other,
and reality itself

While Keats' romantic conception of
The relations between
The individual, his/her romantic imagination
and the world surrounding him/her

Each era has its time
Yeats comes after Keats
In no means otherwise

Like the motorcycles come after the bikes
But never visa versa

Each era has its turn in time
It cannot come before the other
We cannot have first the revolution
Before the evolution

©Sylvia Frances Chan