An Acre of Grass Flashcards

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Yeats’ creativity/love for literature/memories are what’s left

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Picture and book remain

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Yeats compares his body to an old house

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Midnight, an old house

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Not much is going on

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Where nothing stirs but a mouse

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Yeats’ sex drive is gone

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My temptation is quiet

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Yeats is at the end of his life

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Here at life’s end

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Regular thinking isn’t going to give Yeats the truth about life

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Neither loose imagination, nor the mill of the mind

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Regular life isnt going to give Yeats the truth either

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Consuming its rag and bone

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Yeats might be able to get a new perspective through an old mans craziness

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Grant me an old man’s frenzy

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Yeats wants to be like Timon and Lear

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Till I am Timon and Lear

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Yeats talking about William Blake

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William Blake, who beat upon the wall till Truth obeyed his call

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Yeats talking about Michelangelo

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A mind Michael Angelo knew that can pierce the clouds

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The old can still inspire

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Shake the dead

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13
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The elderly are neglected/brushed off by people

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Forgotten else by mankind

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The old still have sharp minds

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An old man’s eagle mind

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themes

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art 
escape
ideal
old age
youth
permanence and change
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