Three Poems from W. B. Yeats’s Last Poems (1939): “The Man and the Echo,” “The Circus Animals’ Desertion,” and “Politics”
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1769.mag.2025.241176Keywords:
W. B. Yeats, poetry in translation, symbolism, modernism, politicsAbstract
This article proposes a translation of three poems by W. B. Yeats, written in final stages of his life. “The Man and the Echo,” “The Circus Animals’ Desertion,” and “Politics” were published together in The Atlantic and The London Mercury in January 1939, just a few weeks shy of the poet’s death, and all three were later included in the posthumous collection Last Poems (1939). In the first two, the poet reviews his own career, reflecting on his engagement with Irish nationalism and his relation to the Symbolist movement. In the short lyric “Politics,” the speaker addresses the contradiction between political commitment and the sacrifice of personal happiness.
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