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Poet: William Butler Yeats
Poem: A Crazed Girl
Volume: New Poems
Year: Published/Written in 1938
Comment 2 of 2, added on May 10th, 2006 at 8:51 PM.
I think that this poem is so beautiful it touched me in so many ways I feel like I hacve reached self-actualization I am so down to earth because of this poem and this positive radiation that is always around me and the people I am with the get a feel of it too.
Like OMG i connect to it sooo well and I hope all you fellas out there will too!
PEACE!!
PEACE from Fiji
Comment 1 of 2, added on March 6th, 2005 at 4:10 PM.
Poetry Criticism
Title: A Crazed Girl
Author: William Butler Yeats
Date Of Publication: 1938
Criticism:
This poem spoke - no, almost shouted from the rooftops - to me. I am going through some serious personal issues in my life at this time and I so resonate with this poem, it's almost [frightening]. I think it's beautiful, and sad, and so full of truth.
MLA Citation:
Lewis, Martha. A Crazed Girl. 16 Feb 2005. Poem Hunter. 6 March 2005.
Criticism 2:
This poem is amazing, and really does evoke a powerful image…Although…I couldn't really get 'carried away' in it…I don't [particularly] like the style or the imagery that Yeats uses, although I do like the repetitive use of the word wound. "She stood in desperate music wound". I feel like that sometimes. Yeats really taps into a feminine sensibility. "A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing/Heroically lost, heroically found." Nice to see a strong female in a poem rather than a doe-eyed dove with some other qualities named after animals that men hunt for sport.
MLA Citation:
Pseudonyms. A Crazed Girl. 16 Nov. 2004. Old Poetry. 6 March 2005.
Criticism 3:
‘A CRAZED GIRL’ [was] written at Barcelona [about] Margaret Ruddock. [She had a] …breakdown in Barcelona on the day of her visit to Yeats in Majorca, [perhaps the inspiration of the poem].
MLA Citation:
William Butler Yeats: Notes (5). (n.d.) Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco). 6 March
2005.
Facts To Add To The Criticism:
“Yeats was already in his dotage when he found himself between the sheets with a 27-year old stunner called Margaret Ruddock. He cast her horoscope, which failed to tell him that she was not only giftless but psycho. She ended up in the bin {loony bin, madhouse}.” - Clive James
MLA Citation:
Brand, Chris. Chris Brand – Psychorealist. 2002. Crispian Demon. 6 March 2005.
O'Connor High Rocks from United States
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I think that this poem is so beautiful it touched me in so many ways I feel like I hacve reached self-actualization I am so down to earth because of this poem and this positive radiation that is always around me and the people I am with the get a feel of it too.
Like OMG i connect to it sooo well and I hope all you fellas out there will too!
PEACE!!
PEACE from Fiji