 The purpose of rhythm, it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment when we are both asleep and awake, which is the one moment of creation, by hushing us with an alluring monotony, while it holds us waking by its variety,...  Rhyme and Reason: Modern Formal Poetry: An Anthology - Page 13by Neil Harding McAlister - 2006 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Butler Yeats - English poetry - 1903 - 360 pages
...Ill X .gu.rppse_pf_rhy_thm, it has always seemed to me, is to prplong_the_moment qf_cpntemplation, (the moment when we are both asleep and awake, which...the one ^ moment of creation^, by hushing us with an i alluring monotony, while it holds us waking ; by variety, to keep us in that state of per- \ haps... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1905 - 288 pages
...of his metre. " The purpose of rhythm," says Mr. Yeats in a striking passage of one of his essays, " it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment...alluring monotony, while it holds us waking by variety." That is the neo-Celt's mystical way of putting a truth that all have felt — the fact that the regular... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1905 - 434 pages
...of his metre. " The purpose of rhythm," says Mr. Yeats in a striking passage of one of his essays, " it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment...alluring monotony, while it holds us waking by variety." That is the neo-Celt's mystical way of putting a truth that all have felt — the fact that the regular... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1905 - 284 pages
...passage of one of his essays, " it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment qf_contemplation, the moment when we are both asleep and awake, which...alluring monotony, while it holds us waking by variety." That is the neo-Celt's mystical way of putting a truth that all have felt—the fact that the regular... | |
 | Cleo McNelly Kearns - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 312 pages
...passage from Yeats's "The Symbolism of Poetry" (1900). Yeats had written: The purpose of rhythm, it had always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment of contemplation,...an alluring monotony, while it holds us waking by its variety, to keep us in that state of perhaps real trance, in which the mind liberated from the... | |
 | Doris B. Wallace, Howard E. Gruber - Psychology - 1992 - 317 pages
...following passage he gives an idea of how he thought it could be put to work. The purpose of rhythm ... is to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment...while it holds us waking by variety, to keep us in the state of perhaps real trance, in which the mind liberated from the pressure of the will is unfolded... | |
 | John Lawrence Brasher - Clergy - 1994 - 288 pages
...catalyst of ecstasy and vision, perhaps in the way described by William Butler Yeats: "Rhythm . . . hushes us with an alluring monotony, while it holds us waking by variety, to keep us in that state of real trance, in which the mind liberated from the pressure of the will is unfolded in symbols."166... | |
 | David Baker - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 400 pages
...in the more imprecise context of the nature of meter itself. "The purpose of rhythm," wrote Yeats, "is to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment...alluring monotony, while it holds us waking by variety." I see the metrical system as an ambitious attempt to regularize this power and this effect. It legislates... | |
 | Terri A. Mester - American poetry - 1997 - 220 pages
...influences. Dance rhythms raised consciousness and transported us beyond the threshold of waking life to "prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment when we are both asleep and awake, . . . the one moment of creation." In this trancelike state, "the mind liberated from the pressure... | |
 | Kirsten Blythe Painter - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 338 pages
...but to cast a spell. Yeats believed that sounds could help the poet achieve an altered consciousness: "The purpose of rhythm, it has always seemed to me, is ... to keep us in that state of perhaps real trance, in which the mind liberated from the pressure of the... | |
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