A Coat Analysis

Author: poem of William Butler Yeats Type: poem Views: 30

I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But he fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.

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This was Yeats coming of age poem. He came to wisdom, understanding that the coat did not make him who he was. It takes a fool to know a fool. He is almost saying, "What a fool I have been for bothering with this coat." But if he had never made the coat, then he would have never came to this wisdom.
Yes he was angry. Yes he accepted the fools for who they were, finally understanding his audience. And yes he moved on instead of giving up; having a much greater understanding of his audience and therefore creating more serious poetry from there on out.

| Posted on 2008-05-01 | by a guest

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Actually the opposite, he was angry that his syle of writing had had been copied by so many others (but the fools caught it), so he changes his syle completely. He did let them have his song, as we see yeats becomes a much more serious (for want of a better word) poet following 'a coat.'

| Posted on 2008-04-10 | by a guest

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I am a student and we have been studying Yeats over the past few classes. I wrote an essay on him. I will interpret this the best that I can, I don't know if I understand it though. During the Irish National Theatre movement, that Yeats helped to start, he wrote this poem...I think he was searching for something new...a new audience, maybe he had a new message. Seems like maybe for so long he had a mask on, a good one that he portrayed to the world and one which was made up of his old beliefs and now the audience has on that same coat with those beliefs (maybe he got his original message across and he is now moving on) and he feels enlightened in his new skin. ???

| Posted on 2008-04-09 | by a guest

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