Book 1, The Collected Poems of WB Yeats : Chapter 2, The Wind Among the Reeds & In The Seven Woods Summary

These are the next two categories of poems that fall under the heading of Lyrical writings in the volume of poetry. The first poem in this batch is a testimony to the archaic Irish imagery that lives on, or that that dwells ghostlike through the psyche of the people of the island nation. It is called The Hosting of the Sidhe. The author writes of some warrior, perhaps with 'flaming red hair' and/or with the mighty warrior's passions...calling, calling like some temptation to the young men of his generation to come away! He has written ancient names, which conjure a half-buried type of pride of tribe and place in...