WB Yeates poem?

[Really Bad Santa]

What is the name of the WB Yeates poem Sean Bean recites?

[MAX]

'He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven' (From the collection 'The Wind Among the Reeds')

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

[Witcher Wolf]

Gorgeous poem that...I wonder if it's one of Wimmer's favourites or one of the actor's favourites?

[MAX]

Maybe...
But, I don't remember Kurt saying so in either commentary.

[devisun]

Yes, I love this poem as well. Yeats is one of those poets that sometimes gets lost in the hustle and bustle of newer more easily read poets...but in my opinion, he is one of my favorites.

dev

[Really Bad Santa]

Thanks guys. Honestly, I had never heard of him before the movie but am thinking about getting a book of his collected poems because I really like this one.

[Xenia Onatopp- Bale]

I would love to read his book. I hope it will be available
here in the Philippines soon.

[Ryu]

In korea, Yeat's poems are published and beloved by many people. But in theater, in korean tramslate script..........

...................they translate the poem EXACTLY opposite meaning. Many fans, even movie magazine protested, they just ignored them.

Well, fortunately in DVD, translation is not bad. At least the poem is translated very well.

Lovely poem, I think.

[Witcher Wolf]

Good to hear they got it right in the DVD translation anyways, Ryu thanks for the headsup!

[JenGe]

A large collection of Yeats poetry can be found right on-line...

The Wind Among the Reeds.
www.bartleby.com/146/index1.html

Responsibilities and Other Poems.
www.bartleby.com/147/index1.html

The Wild Swans at Coole
www.bartleby.com/148/index1.html

[Twelve]

Hello, I am a Japanese university student. I wached EQ, and I am interested in Yeates's poem, so I want to buy an anthology. Then, Is the anthology which Partridge read exists, or just a property? I want to buy a same one. The book looks nice. If someone know, plese tell me.

[JenGe]

Hi Twelve & welcome,

I just want you to know that I'm not ignoring your question here. I'll have to do some research before I'm able to give you any anwers.

[Xenia Onatopp- Bale]

Thanks for the WB Yeates poem links, JenGe.
I'll definitely check that out.

[JenGe]

OK, here is what I found out. The copys of Yeats used in EQ were created just for the film. Different sizes were make. You can't buy these.

Amazon does have a number of other Yeats collections. Just run a search there using his name.

[Twelve]

Thank you so much, JenGe! I'll pick out a nice one from Amazon.

By the way, In Japan, there is a computer novel of EQ another story named "Jyouka no monsyou"(the crest of purfication). And in the novel, a cleric read Yeates poem too.

[Cleric Queenie]

Check out this link for W.B. Yeats.

www.bibliomania.com/0/-/frameset.html

[doom]

Hi i want to buy this book yeats poem FROM WHERE

[BMaloney]

I have a special interest in poetry and I must say that obviously Yeats is a more popular poet and his work can be found all over the place. Just give a good look.

[Xenia Onatopp- Bale]

Thanks for the link,Queenie. This is very educational.
And a very good site for literary fanatics like me.

[psychobitchua]

Never liked poetry and never could understand it in general since such thing as rhyme limits the creative process and the things author wants to say. But how they say, the right thing put in the right place always makes an impression. I have a tiny book of W.B. Yeats poetry since we studied his works at school briefly. It's in Russian, and in rus translation they made this accent in the last row on "MY dreams", and it looks like this in Russian: "you tread on only mine dreams", meaning that author's dreams aren't important and are only worth to be under someone's feet. This shade of cruelness makes right impression. Well, enough literature lessons for today for me. But man, the poem was written in 1899 if I don't mistake anything, which proves that real art is really immortal.

[baleheadnutcase]

psychobitchua said:

Never liked poetry and never could understand it in general since such thing as rhyme limits the creative process and the things author wants to say. But how they say, the right thing put in the right place always makes an impression. I have a tiny book of W.B. Yeats poetry since we studied his works at school briefly. It's in Russian, and in rus translation they made this accent in the last row on "MY dreams", and it looks like this in Russian: "you tread on only mine dreams", meaning that author's dreams aren't important and are only worth to be under someone's feet. This shade of cruelness makes right impression. Well, enough literature lessons for today for me. But man, the poem was written in 1899 if I don't mistake anything, which proves that real art is really immortal.

Wow...you've got me impressed....I'm currently doing "War poetry" in English....and this is really similar 'cause we have to interpret what the war poets were tryin to communicate...I'm not all for poetry either, I like writing, with less subtle imagery.