History & Politics
A Meditation in Time of War
From Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
History & PoliticsThe Mind
For one throb of the Artery,
While on that old grey stone I sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate
Mankind inanimate phantasy.
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Codex Note
Five lines: for one throb of the artery, sitting on an old grey stone under a wind-broken tree, the speaker knows that 'One is animate, / Mankind inanimate phantasy'.
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MLA
Yeats, W. B. “A Meditation in Time of War.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/61/.
Chicago
Yeats, W. B. “A Meditation in Time of War.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/61/.
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