Runoja

by W.B. Yeats, Aale Tynni (translator)

Valikoiman suomennokset, yhtä lukuunottamatta, pohjautuvat niihin teksteihin, jotka sisältyvät Yeatsin koottuihin runoihin (Collected poems, London 1965).

Genres: Classics

212 pages

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years Yeats served as an Irish Senator for two terms. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." He was the first Irishman so honored. Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).

Yeats was born and educated in Dublin but spent his childhood in County Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth, and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and those slow paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser and Percy Bysshe Shelley, as well as to the Pre-Raphaelite poets. From 1900, Yeats' poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.
--from Wikipedia

Reviews

[Heidi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jäi vieraaksi. Aiheet luonnosta ja ihmistä, Elämästä ja irlantilaisesta mytologiasta ja taruperinteestä. Romantiikan ja symbolismin välimaastossa. Metaforat yms sellaisia, että ei jättänyt erityistä jälkeä.

Ja tätä lukiessa pärähti päässä soimaan yksi The Smithsin helmistä: Cemetry Gates, jossa lauletaan mm. näin:

”A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're wanted
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
But you lose
'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine”
(Sanat: Morrissey/Marr)

[Olli Lukkari · Rating 4 out of 5]

Filled with poems and a short biography and analysis/introduction the style of William Butles Yeates, this book offers Finnish translations of Yeats' poems. Yeats is regarding is one of the all-time-great among the poets using English language and his style of use of words is versatile and unique.

[Ville · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vaikea tajuta, aika myyttistä

[Suketus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Minulle liian vaikeita ja mukaansatempaamattomia symbolistisia runoja. Kaunista kieltä, mutta ei tavoita tällaista huonosti runoutta tuntevaa henkilöä.