"The Circus Animals' Desertion III"In stanzas 2-4, Yeats tells us that he can do little but "enumerate old themes." In stanza 4, he says of what he has written:
It was the dream itself enchanted me:
character isolated by deed.
To engross the present and dominate memory.
Players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things they were emblems of.
In my drawing, each character is isolated by a deed: walking on stilts, tug of war, balancing on a pig, training a dog to jump through a hoop. My little goat is watching with amusement from behind the curtain.
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3 comments:
Am enjoying your folk art interpretations. I love to create folk art-style images. Thank you very much for sharing your drawings and the words inspiring you. Looks like you are having a delightful time.
The phantasmagoria comes alive! I like this active scene.
Thank you for the Yeats' quotes and your interpretation.
A glorious holiday!
Gretchen
Yet, from where does their power arise?
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