The poem
That crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found.
No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea.'
Poetry Criticism Title: A Crazed Girl Author: William Butler Yeats Date Of Publication: 1938 Criticism: This poem spoke - no, almost shouted from the rooftops - to me. I am going through some serious personal issues in my life at this time and I so resonate with this poem, it's almost [frightening]. I think it's beautiful, and sad, and so full of truth. MLA Citation: Lewis, Martha. A Crazed Girl. 16 Feb 2005. Poem…
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Title: A Crazed Girl
Author: William Butler Yeats
Date Of Publication: 1938
Criticism:
This poem spoke - no, almost shouted from the rooftops - to me. I am going through some serious personal issues in my life at this time and I so resonate with this poem, it's almost [frightening]. I think it's beautiful, and sad, and so full of truth.
MLA Citation:
Lewis, Martha. A Crazed Girl. 16 Feb 2005. Poem Hunter. 6 March 2005.
Criticism 2:
This poem is amazing, and really does evoke a powerful image…Although…I couldn't really get 'carried away' in it…I don't [particularly] like the style or the imagery that Yeats uses, although I do like the repetitive use of the word wound. "She stood in desperate music wound". I feel like that sometimes. Yeats really taps into a feminine sensibility. "A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing/Heroically lost, heroically found." Nice to see a strong female in a poem rather than a doe-eyed dove with some other qualities named after animals that men hunt for sport.
MLA Citation:
Pseudonyms. A Crazed Girl. 16 Nov. 2004. Old Poetry. 6 March 2005.
Criticism 3:
‘A CRAZED GIRL’ [was] written at Barcelona [about] Margaret Ruddock. [She had a] …breakdown in Barcelona on the day of her visit to Yeats in Majorca, [perhaps the inspiration of the poem].
MLA Citation:
William Butler Yeats: Notes (5). (n.d.) Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco). 6 March
2005.
Facts To Add To The Criticism:
“Yeats was already in his dotage when he found himself between the sheets with a 27-year old stunner called Margaret Ruddock. He cast her horoscope, which failed to tell him that she was not only giftless but psycho. She ended up in the bin {loony bin, madhouse}.” - Clive James
MLA Citation:
Brand, Chris. Chris Brand – Psychorealist. 2002. Crispian Demon. 6 March 2005.
I think that this poem is so beautiful it touched me in so many ways I feel like I hacve reached self-actualization I am so down to earth because of this poem and this positive radiation that is always around me and the people I am with the get a feel of it too.
Like OMG i connect to it sooo well and I hope all you fellas out there will too!
PEACE!!