Week 2: Thursday Jan. 26th

"A Coat" by William Butler Yeats

I decided to reflect on one of William Butler Yeats shorter poems.  There is definitely a reason why this man was awarded a Nobel Prize because just this poem alone shows how intelligient he was. I was amazed at how much meaning was within so little words.  In this poem, he makes a personal story into what I think can be seen in many different ways. I honestly had to read it a numerous amount of times to decide on what I thought it really meant.  What made my decision was the statement "As though they'd wrought it." This led me to believe that he was actually speaking of his style of poetry.  I analyzed this poem as him saying that he had wrote things in his own original way and other people stole this from him. "But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes."  This shows that they used his ideas as their own; therefore, the "coat" is obviously a metaphor for something that has much greater value.  I think when he says, "Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked." he is saying that he would much rather give that up and be original, honest, and real than be fake and use someone else's work.