Under Ben Bulben (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Spiritual life or spirituality, Legends, Reading, Fate or fatalism, Heroes or heroism, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Reincarnation, Ireland or Irish people, Mountains, Horsemanship
The Poem
“Under Ben Bulben” is a long poem of ninety-four lines divided into six movements celebrating William Butler Yeats’s vision of an artistically integrated spiritual reality. He exhorts readers and artists to share this vision for the fulfillment of the human race through art.
The poem’s title refers to a mountain north of the village of Sligo, County Sligo, in the west of Ireland, where Yeats’s maternal ancestors (the Pollexfens) had settled. The area afforded Yeats a principal contact with Irish folklore and with the peasantry, both of which figure...
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