The indecent haste of mapping the Radcliffe line , leaving a tragic and messy legacy, the architect Cyril Radcliffe, burnt his papers, refused his fee and left once and for all......not daring to look back....

beautiful idealised nature upstanding men ...symbol of virility fishermen and farmers....no longer young , admires identifies with them " my arms are like the twisted thorns and yet there beauty lay "

a sensitive blend of the contraries of thought, an inner being untangles questions... perhaps the earlier anxiety is replaced by a serene note ....

legend spills into a desire, a longing for the unattainable love of his life

A powerful lament in the solitude of the spirit, a defiant acceptance....of physical limitations and infinite possibilities of imagination

The transient world and the One Reality.... through strife and Maya to Realisation and Nirvana.....can Yeats abandon the joy and beauty of the grand illusion?

rich in symbolism, the blue dome the golden bird the dolphins the nature art and transcendence

Rich in symbolism the golden bird the star studded dome the dolphins......the poet's complex refuge

art nature and transcendence.... resolution to contradictory impulses

The dramatic tension between the physical and the intellectual....the search for eternal life