Cummen Strand, Sligo
In Red Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland he describes; 'The old brown thorn-trees break in two high over Cummen Strand...'
Image courtesy of Gottfried Scheckenbach.Cummen Strand, Sligo
Image courtesy of Gottfried Scheckenbach.
Image courtesy of Gottfried Scheckenbach.
Cummen Strand, Sligo
In Red Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland he describes; 'The old brown thorn-trees break in two high over Cummen Strand...'
Image courtesy of Gottfried Scheckenbach.Some of Yeats' poems are not so happy. Saying these poems out loud allows you to feel the beauty of the lines and the images.
This is true for much of Yeats' poetry, whether the subject is a happy or more serious one.
Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland. In the same poem he talks the beautiful Knocknarea. Try saying this extract out loud and see if it allows you to feel the beauty of the lines and the images.:
"The old brown thorn-trees break in two high over Cummen Strand,
Under a bitter black wind that blows from the left hand;
Our courage breaks like an old tree in a black wind and dies,
But we have hidden in our hearts the flame out of the eyes
Of Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan."