{"id":338,"date":"2011-09-17T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T11:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2014-05-08T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T13:10:50","slug":"the-fisherman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/the-fisherman-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fisherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/?p=106\">July 19th post<\/a> I decided to use W. B. Yeats&#8217; poem &#8220;The Fisherman&#8221; as part of my song cycle <em>The Fisherman Songs<\/em>. The song is complete. The fly fisherman in the poem is both symbolic and real. In this complex and passionate poem there is a tranquil moment when the fly fisherman alights his fly on to the stream. 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