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THE REALISTS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: HOPE THAT YOU MAY UNDERSTAND!
Last Line: WITH THE DRAGONS?
Subject(s): REALITY;

HOPE that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?



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