Wind between reeds

Author: William Butler Yeats (Ireland)
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The Wind Among the Reeds is a poetry collection of love, consisting of 80 poems selected from 12 of Yeats' works between 1889 and 1939. Some of the chosen poems have a slow rhythm, like a cello melody drifting out from a long alley; others are bright and cheerful, resembling a beautiful flute tune on the Irish grasslands. Love runs through Yeats' life and all his poetry. In his life and collections, love is serious and sacred, beautiful yet painful. He blends youth, love, and death into a recurring, intricate, and mysterious temporal and spatial background, where they confront each other. In this painful confrontation, themes like truth and freedom emerge one by one, imbued with the weight of time. No one can praise love as profoundly as Yeats, to the extent that it transcends the individuals within it and exists beyond love itself. In this vast and timeless space, Yeats tirelessly constructs his own and humanity's eternal questions—life, dignity, youth, love—and expresses his boundless love for humanity.