{"id":106,"date":"2011-07-19T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2016-10-19T07:44:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T11:44:48","slug":"the-fisherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/the-fisherman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fisherman"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am using W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Fisherman” as part of my song cycle The Fisherman Songs<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Although I can see him still,
\nThe freckled man who goes
\nTo a grey place on a hill
\nIn grey Connemara clothes
\nAt dawn to cast his flies,
\nIt\u2019s long since I began
\nTo call up to the eyes
\nThis wise and simple man.
\nAll day I\u2019d looked in the face
\nWhat I had hoped \u2019twould be
\nTo write for my own race
\nAnd the reality;
\nThe living men that I hate,
\nThe dead man that I loved,
\nThe craven man in his seat,
\nThe insolent unreproved,
\nAnd no knave brought to book
\nWho has won a drunken cheer,
\nThe witty man and his joke
\nAimed at the commonest ear,
\nThe clever man who cries
\nThe catch-cries of the clown,
\nThe beating down of the wise
\nAnd great Art beaten down.<\/p>\n

Maybe a twelvemonth since
\nSuddenly I began,
\nIn scorn of this audience,
\nImagining a man
\nAnd his sun-freckled face,
\nAnd grey Connemara cloth,
\nClimbing up to a place
\nWhere stone is dark under froth,
\nAnd the down turn of his wrist
\nWhen the flies drop in the stream:
\nA man who does not exist,
\nA man who is but a dream;
\nAnd cried, \u2018Before I am old
\nI shall have written him one
\nPoem maybe as cold
\nAnd passionate as the dawn.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is a wonderful poem that uses the Irish fly fisherman as a symbol of integrity and as Yeats ideal audience. As with the other poems, I have found it useful if I have an image. Here is a beautiful salmon fly that goes back to the 19th century with the name Connemara Black.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I have found a few photos of rivers running through Connemara County with steep\u00a0hills. This images has someone fly fishing a river in Connemara.<\/p>\n

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