jan 1, 1937 - The Municipal Gallery Revisited | W. B. Yeats

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W. B. Yeats was the first Irishman to win a Nobel Prize for poetry as well, in the same year.

A seven-stanza poem, seperated into sets of 8 lines. (called octaves). It begins with the speaked broadly describing the art he saw around him, with different opinions on the men in the pictures. He continues through the museum and sees 2 paintings of women important to him. It is of Maude Gonne, someone he once loved. He comes across a painting depicting Augusta Gregory, which was an important figure in Yeats’ life. He comes across another painting of a friend, named John Synge. All of these portraits are lovely, but they don’t show the faces of the people he knew. Yeats tells the reader that to judge him, they must come to the museum and see his friends, he judges himself based on them.

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