Description
Rising from the restored Norman tower at Ballylee, this landmark collection gathers poems that move between the intimate and the mythic, tracing a life’s passage from youth’s certainties toward the hard questions of age, memory, and mortality. Across its shifting scenes and voices, Yeats interrogates the pull of love and art against the limits of the body, using haunting imagery, symbolic landscapes, and legendary echoes to explore what endures when the self changes. The poems also stage a continual tension between reality and vision—between what is seen, what is imagined, and what the spirit seeks beyond time. With Yeats’s unmistakable lyrical intensity and philosophical reach, this volume offers a mature, resonant meditation on transcendence, desire, and the afterlife of meaning.
Available Editions
hardcover
Penguin Classic
Published Feb 27, 2018
160 pages
ISBN: 9780241303092
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Details
First Published
1928
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Tower by W. B. Yeats.