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Poet: William Butler Yeats
Poem: A Last Confession
Volume: The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Year: Published/Written in 1933
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Jul 13 2003
Comment 4 of 4, added on March 12th, 2009 at 12:33 PM.
It's amazing how people don't know how to "read" poetry. For one, how about doing some research on the poem before smashing the poet. I write poetry myself, and I've writen in the voice of a man, but that doesn't mean I'm a lesbian. A lot of poets do this. And like Leo said, Yeats tells us in the poem that he is speaking as a woman, and that the poem is from a collection of poems writen with a female narrator.
Angela from United States
Comment 3 of 4, added on April 27th, 2006 at 4:06 AM.
The poem comes from a sequence called 'A Woman Young and Old', and it is to be understood that a woman is speaking in the poem. That should be obvious in any case from the third stanza when the speaker says, 'I gave what OTHER women give...'
Leo from Ireland
Comment 2 of 4, added on April 4th, 2006 at 6:11 PM.
I just learned of WB Yeats today. I found this site by researching some of his work ... Will Anchor, I just read your comment, then re-read the poem. No wonder I was confused by it. I thought he had a love for a woman named Maud Gonne, not a love for men (or boys)!!! I agree with you Will, 100 %!!! By WB Yeats writing a poem of this nature, one can only assume that he definitely had a homosexual experience. Based on how he wrote of the enticing pleasure he had from the experience, it most likely wasn't his one and only sexual encounter with another male ... ; 0
Melanie from United States
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It's amazing how people don't know how to "read" poetry. For one, how about doing some research on the poem before smashing the poet. I write poetry myself, and I've writen in the voice of a man, but that doesn't mean I'm a lesbian. A lot of poets do this. And like Leo said, Yeats tells us in the poem that he is speaking as a woman, and that the poem is from a collection of poems writen with a female narrator.
Angela from United States