An Acre of Grass Flashcards
Yeats’ creativity/love for literature/memories are what’s left
Picture and book remain
Yeats compares his body to an old house
Midnight, an old house
Not much is going on
Where nothing stirs but a mouse
Yeats’ sex drive is gone
My temptation is quiet
Yeats is at the end of his life
Here at life’s end
Regular thinking isn’t going to give Yeats the truth about life
Neither loose imagination, nor the mill of the mind
Regular life isnt going to give Yeats the truth either
Consuming its rag and bone
Yeats might be able to get a new perspective through an old mans craziness
Grant me an old man’s frenzy
Yeats wants to be like Timon and Lear
Till I am Timon and Lear
Yeats talking about William Blake
William Blake, who beat upon the wall till Truth obeyed his call
Yeats talking about Michelangelo
A mind Michael Angelo knew that can pierce the clouds
The old can still inspire
Shake the dead
The elderly are neglected/brushed off by people
Forgotten else by mankind
The old still have sharp minds
An old man’s eagle mind
themes
art escape ideal old age youth permanence and change