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Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats - W.B. Yeats

Description: ISBN 1853264547 / Author: W.B. Yeats / Genre: Drama / Poetry / Criticism

Newest Review: ... those with a Monaghan background, and those with a Dublin background. He is remembered mostly for his Monaghan poetry, which ... more

... was raw and consisted of everyday, common experiences. It is the Monaghan poetry I love best and my favourite of these is “Stony Grey Soil”. In this poem Kavanagh appears, in my opinion, at his most bitter and natural self. His appearing hatred and resentment to Monaghan comes into clear view here as he, it would seem in parts, appears to rant and rave at how Monaghan has been the cause of his hard life and how it held him back. There is proof in this in such lines as: “You flung a ditch...more

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Yeats in General - Advantages: Yeats is a very Mystical and a tough poet to follow - Disadvantages: Yeats is very obsessed about his past w/ a wowam

"Stony Grey Soil" The best of Patrick Kavanagh (450 words)
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“Stony Grey Soil” by Patrick Kavanagh “Stony grey soil of Monaghan The laugh from my love you thieved; You took the gay child of my passion And gave me your clod conceived” Patrick Kavanagh was born on a small farm in County Monaghan, Ireland in 1906 and was educated at the local National School. He was born into a lower class family and worked on the family farm until the age of thirty-three, when he moved to Dublin. He is a poet of renown and ranks as one of the greatest Irish Literary talents of all time. His poetry can be divided into two main sections – those with a ... Read the complete review