The Passion of Yeats

Passion was a central theme in the work of the beloved and Nobel Prize winning Irish poet William Butler Yeats. This film explores how passion is woven through both his life and poetry with UCSB professor Enda Duffy and author T.C. Boyle.

[@joejackson6453]

Thank you for this its a wonderful insight. I will look to Yeats now and read some of his work.🙏🏽

[@DAVID-kd3qy]

This is the poem of a young man!

[@robotboy719]

Wonderful summary of Yeats and his work. Despite the swift passage through his career, the documentary doesn't pander or over-simplify. Well worth the 24 minutes, especially if that leads to picking up the poems.

[@lauraveapi3840]

Beautifully done...you feel the passion these men have for Yeats! Greetings from Europe...

[@colleenbrowne739]

Thank you for posting this, a beautiful tribute to one of the world's greatest poets.

[@hamunderhill2062]

well well enda glad you're spreading the word in your wonderful voice

[@Bimalanshu]

Magnificent, Prof. Oliver.

[@bredamaune2028]

Brilliant. Thank you.

[@spellboundtarot1264]

I have watched this documentary for about 5 times and I’m still enjoying it! I’m grateful for it! 🤍

[@soulsearching7240]

It brings a tear to my eye.

[@sattarabus]

Prof Enda Duffy reminisces about Yeats as if they spent half a century together as next-door neighbours. His tone is intimate and exuberant. Yeats exalts his stature by exulting in the travails of love and its detritus---the inextinguishable phosphorescence of velleities.

[@Panini_Edirisinhe]

A wonderful lecture, listened to in Sri Lanka by "Sinhala_Man". That is what I call myself when trying to rouse the conscience of my race-besotted relatives. One appreciates this all the more if one has actually been reading Yeats for many years and pondering on the man's life. He died just in time, at the beginning of the Second World War. Had he lived longer, he would, without doubt, have aligned himself with Hitler, and his reputation would certainly have suffered. Thanks, Professor Harry Oliver.

[@brianoc22]

Yes! The romantic mind and politics are a risky mixture..

[@aclark903]

@@brianoc22 His friend #EzraPound did more or less that (Mussolini) & his reputation has suffered.

[@FerndaleMichiganUSA]

Thank you Harry Oliver, English professor at Northwestern Michigan College who smoked in the classroom and read Yeats to us.

[@s.absaece7588]

plz watch this u can save a life kzbin.info/www/bejne/maHIYWOMg9CJepI

[@p.iabhivyakti9641]

Sir .......... explained beautifully 🙏🙏

[@lilliannieswender266]

This was wonderful. Thanks for posting it.

[@dondesmond7969]

The Nobel was 1923 not 26. Sadly there is a doco on KZbin casting doubt on wheter they are his none in the grave but R.I.P. wherever he is. His work will live on.

[@johnniejukebox]

Genius..

[@jimjiminy1929]

I found out he used to hand out near these remote rocks near me, along with the Bloomsbury set. Loads of magic mushrooms grow there🤔

[@innocentlinda6513]

Shroomsssss Invite media teaaa🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sineadconran4964]

I❤Eire

[@philmurphy5584]

Class

[@KonstanzArrens]

A great poet. A Singer of Life. A Singer to Life. Who else but a great poet could write: "Being certain that they and I But lived where motley is worn: All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born" Using motley, as the noun, meaning, "the multicoloured costume of a jester", AND, by implication, "an incongruous mixture". Brilliant. But now, no more - "A terrible beauty is born" - rising up out of the struggle for that most human need, the ideal of Liberty.

[@JohnReadsPoetry]

You listen to the beauty of his poetry and you realize how weird it is that for a while Yeats believed that "Vision", a book based on his wife's automatic writing that he thought prophetized the events of the next hundread years (he was heavily into the occult and all that stuff), would be his "book of books". PS: if you like Yeats' poetry, you'll find readings of "The Withering of the Boughs" and "The Scholars" on my channel.

[@thewestlingfanatic2405]

Yeats is my favorite poet however, I find it hypocritic that he himself resides in London and demands his Irish poeople to go up in arms against the English forces to gain independence. He could've lived an honourable life in Ireland. I realize London along with Paris used to be the centre of literary pursuits but he could've corresponded with other writers from his home country.

[@DAVID-kd3qy]

Yeats did spend part of his life in Ireland. Though he was a truly great poet, he could be a mean-minded man. His refusal to include the poems of WILFRED OWEN in the Oxford Book of English Verse, when he edited it, was a disgusting thing to do. And his 'justification' was nonsense.

[@ritaraju4998]

"The Witch" that was for that monster

[@willyoueverknowmealone5544]

Whats the expression of tomorrow without us lost forever looking for it nor here nor there but somewhere looking to be the listener the guest to the infinite night falling for our eyes to hold our pain saying where still here today

[@4n4rch1st7]

The passion of Y E E T S

[@hridayee_empowers]

Georgie hyde looks similar to maud gonne

[@JwinBaby]

Sorry about that 🔔

[@prodtonio]

Nah u killed me crodie 🤣

[@ghostrwiter4697]

كهل رمادي طافحا بالنعاس .....لا عمر للروح ولا لون لها ....ومع ذلك حتى التعب نفسه ليس نفيا للروح

[@animula6908]

I’m always surprised when I see her pictures. I guess after reading his poems and hearing she inspired, it’s hard not to be like “dang! She’s kind of meh versus the expectation!” No matter how good someone looks. After all, to me she’s just some woman except for Yeats.

[@DAVID-kd3qy]

Maud Gonne inspired Yeats with her courage and determination, and she had the good sense not to become his wife.

[@EnliveningJustice]

5:09 9:42

[@papapeaceful8713]

0:34

[@maurieosullivan2527]

Ar fheabhas.

[@julianromero3868]

Thought this was abt the rapper yeat😭

[@EnliveningJustice]

_cheer up, actually get some intelligence and culture for once_

[@BrianJMonahan]

There are just as many talented, successful American writers as there are Irish ones, percentage wise. There are just as many un published american writers as there are Irish ones. There are just as many un talented published and successful American writers as there Irish ones.....

[@mckavitt]

Brian Monahan Always American competitive thinking intervenes. All over the planet. It is an obsession w us.

[@archiebunker4108]

Aye, I've encountered that competitive thinking, which is wearisome over time,

[@terrycorkell4361]

no

[@niallsheehan474]

Nuclear bombs and doughnuts. WBY

[@EnliveningJustice]

@@mckavitt Extremely incorrect. Careful with your ASSumptions, mckavitt, you're turning bitter quite fast.