[New-Poetry] ambition?

[TheOldMole]

That's an immense poetic accomplishment, describing a very modest ambition. Did Yeats have immense poetic ambition? We gather that he did -- he had a powerful desire to be a great poet. Does this poem come out of immense poetic ambition -- to write a poem that will change the world? Not so clear that it did.
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  From: Anny Ballardini 
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  Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 5:23 PM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] ambition?


        The Lake Isle of Innisfree 

        I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, 
        And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
        Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, 
        And live alone in the bee-loud glade. 

        And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, 
        Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; 
        There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, 
        And evening full of the linnet's wings. 

        I will arise and go now, for always night and day 
        I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; 
        While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, 
        I hear it in the deep heart's core. 

        W. B. Yeats


         


  Anny Ballardini
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  I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
  Friedrich Nietzsche 



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