ENG 3320 Lecture 10: Yeats day 4
2 Mar 2017
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Custom and ceremony form: how innocence survived. True source of beauty, ceremony: custom: traditions of grace and quiet beauty of life. Started in dublin, finished it in flooding tower. Horn of plenty source of all good things; ceremony. Thunderous storm outside: no real protection where he is, gloom: sees all terrible things but now he has a child. S2: lets himself go to the place in his head and sees terrible life. S3: start of prayer; theory of what is correct and right for women: don"t be too beautiful (because they"ll think beauty is enough and be without friends) S4: associates helen with maud: hop: folk motif for him represents courtesy of aristocratic qualities. S5: better to be courteous and kind than beautiful: suggestion of his marriage and his old relationship with maud. S6: live quietly in merriment and courtesy: be rooted in one pace of life and tradition.
