brad (brawdock@mars.utm.edu) from 192.239.151.166 at 06/08/98 10:52AM
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    I have to add that "The Lake Isle Of Innisfree" is my favorite Yeats poem. While I am not sure how one would read it aloud in a way which lends itself to making the rhyme work, it the sounds contained within the poem that fascinate me. He knows what he's doing with where he puts the words: "wattles," "bean-rows," "bee-loud glade," "linnet's wings," etc. All of those words suggest movement, just like the poet is moving within the context of the poem, the lines in the poem are all moving and the sounds keep it going. "The Stolen Child" reminds of the german legend of "The Erl- King" which my great-grandfather related to us as "The King of the Haints," apparently the Mountaineer version of the same tale. I feel that I need to know more of the Cuchulain myth to get some of these poems.