The three poets in Gerytades, like many politicians, find themselves on the cusp of success—but their decisions damn them, so they must trundle back home, thinking of ways to spin their failure into victory.
Yeats’ ghostly philosophy became a central theme in much of his most significant poetry. Many of his key works cannot be properly understood without knowledge of it.
In Lawrence’s poetry, we catch a glimpse of how exactly the lordship of the machine is instituted: not with guns at the door, but on the altar of our worship.
