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Comment 29 of 29, added on August 8th, 2006 at 8:43 PM.
I came across this on the Beeb's "Poetry Pod" - amazing! like a light being turned on…
Wil Davis from United States
Comment 28 of 29, added on August 4th, 2006 at 7:47 PM.
To hear Anthony Hopkins read this poem in '84 Charing Cross Road' was one of those beautiful memories in life. It's one of those times you want to put that feeling into a bottle and capture forever.
Annie from United States
Comment 27 of 29, added on June 19th, 2006 at 4:24 AM.
I first came upon this poem watching 84 charring cross road, i was blown away and have read everything by this poet since, i always get tears in my eyes and feel so emotional when i read it slowly, i noticed someone said they sang it , id love to hear it any info on how i would get hold of a copy of it to music?
muraod from Ireland
Comment 26 of 29, added on June 11th, 2006 at 11:25 PM.
I dont really believe the poem is talking about love for so than admiration. I believe that because he wants to put the clothes of heaven under another person's feet could be refering to putting them more so on a pedestal really. I mean you can love someone and you can admire someone too.
This poems is my absolute favorite but reading it could never compare to the choir piece. Sure it is the orginal but it lacks so much emphasis. You can read it fast because you're a good reader and can't wait to have that result feeling after reading a moving piece, or you can read it slow and be the one who soaks us every word but regardless hearing someone else say it can be much more fulfilling. But like I said before it lacks much emphasis over the choir piece. As a choir student, I sang this piece and its was so...amazing! In the song version (depending one the composer), the line where he talks about being poor is repeated. This repetition is used to show that we relized we are only poor and yes, we only have our dreams. The music at this point isn't has flowing as it was original, but then it continues to move when we say " I spread my dreams under your feet". It's like that us being poor won't stop us from giving our all. we continue through the song repeating the first part "had I the heavens..." skip the "poor" part and go straight to the end. Here the end is very light and sincere. we stretch the word softly and the notes fall. we end one dreams, which is stretch out the longest and it slowly fades. When hearing the piece, it gives you the imagery with the notes aswell as the words. When reading the poem over and over again, it feels to expected or just simple.
Nicole from United States
Comment 25 of 29, added on June 5th, 2006 at 4:43 AM.
i first studied this poem in school.and i feel that the issue in this poem is dissapointment for yeats because i got the feeling that yeats thought he didn't deserve the women he is talking about
Cathal Kelly from Ireland
Comment 24 of 29, added on December 27th, 2005 at 1:04 AM.
This poem is a very moving tribute to a woman, suggesting the power she has over her lover.
He has nothing to offer her but his dreams, perhaps dreams of a future together, and he asks that she respects his dreams.
Bijaya Adhikari from Nepal
Comment 23 of 29, added on December 9th, 2005 at 1:36 AM.
I read this poem today first time and felt very, very nice sounded. This poem is a reason of a wonderful love to others and a sound of beautiful heart. An imagination creates a new thing and it can approach to reality after a hard step to gain it. Imagination comes from the bottom of heart and mind then people like to make it reality in the wonderful world.
It is very nice sounded poem very short but beautiful. It is not possible to finish if we try to emphasize in words because it's mean is so long and so wide like horizon or like blue sky. The imagination of heaven, the imagination of decorated clothes and a very caring friend who can't see a agony of her feet and just he like to see her hearty welcome! So this is very beautiful poem and it touches to all human heart of the world and directs them to keep beautiful love instinct, what helps to save the world.
surendra from Nepal
Comment 22 of 29, added on December 8th, 2005 at 11:12 AM.
I, too, first heard this poem when recited by the marvelous actor, Sean Bean, in "Equilibrium". His splendid recitation gave the plea such dignity.
Gay Woods from United States
Comment 21 of 29, added on November 7th, 2005 at 1:30 AM.
I heard this poem once looking the movie "84 Chearing Cross Road". May be I read it during my studies of english poetry at the age of grammar school. But may be I was too young, then, to find my eyes full of tears, as today, reading it. Even if my heart had wished for the Cloths of Heaven early, my life has answered about them later, forming each day as the weft of cloths. When the dreams have been written along the life, and given to someone that it seems the one you were deeply waiting for, and spread under her feet... but she doesn't love dreams, and you, at last.
She doesn't tread on my dreams any more. I am walking on the next days of my life, not so much as the ones past, looking for poetry as usual. The colours of the days, shapes of the clouds, depth of the sea, with the whole is living there, are my places.
Waiting for the Heaven? I don't really know, feeling my dreams so empty and poor now.
I would thank the spirit of William Yates to have written so deep to make him alive forever in the people who tread on his dreams softly.
Cesare Baroso from Italy
Comment 20 of 29, added on October 16th, 2005 at 9:45 PM.
It's lovely. I first heard it during an english class and had to figure it out. I've translated it to my language, but the translation doesn't capture the meaning and the power of the words put forth by Mr. Yeats.
GG.
Goran from Yugoslavia
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I came across this on the Beeb's "Poetry Pod" - amazing! like a light being turned on…
Wil Davis from United States