 | 1928 - 924 Seiten
...illusive and a bit more significant is Gertrude Atherton's Black Oxen, from Yeats' The Countess Kathleen: The years like great black oxen tread the world, And...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. A pleasant echo is aroused in the reader's mind by reference to well-known passages in Shakespeare,... | |
 | 1926 - 780 Seiten
...Richard. "Well, but what is't o'clock?" Shakespeare, King Richard III. BLACK OXEN, by Gertrude Atherton. "The years like great black oxen tread the world,...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet." WB Yeats, Countess Kathleen. THE WITCHING HOUR, by Augustus Thomas. " 'Tis now the very witching time... | |
 | Clive Hart, David Hayman - 1977 - 454 Seiten
...becomes prominent and is itself linked by a quotation to the closing speech of Yeats's Countess Cathleen: The years like great black oxen tread the world, And...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. 'Huuh! Hark! Huuh! Parallax stalks behind and goads them' (414.16). Bloom's artless puzzling over an... | |
 | George Steiner - 1984 - 448 Seiten
...deed alone. OONA: Tell them who walk upon the floor of peace That I would die and go to her I love; The years like great black oxen tread the world, And...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. In Purgatory, the mirage of the perfection of dramatic verse is within grasp. Nowhere in the entire... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 Seiten
...nurse, speaks: "Tell them who walk upon the floor of peace / That I would die and go to her I love; / The years like great black oxen tread the world, /...behind, / And I am broken by their passing feet." For "parallax," see 8. 1 10n. with unutterable and demoniac natures, whilst over all rises, as a surmounting... | |
 | Emily Wortis Leider - 1991 - 456 Seiten
...(Blacl( Oxen, p. 232). Gertrude found the title "Black Oxen" in a Yeats play, The Countess Cathleen : The years like great black oxen tread the world And...them on behind And I am broken by their passing feet. She told Phelan that in the epigraph of her new book's title page she would omit the last of these... | |
 | the late M. L. Rosenthal - 1997 - 379 Seiten
...loss and heartbreak: Tell them who walk upon the floor of peace That I would die and go to her I love; The years like great black oxen tread the world, And...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. Oona's speech staves off any temptation to let the play end in a fireworks display of facile celebratory... | |
 | Garth Jowett, Ian C. Jarvie, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley - 1996 - 456 Seiten
...foreground, turned a curve and plodded out of sight. They were followed by these words upon the screen. "The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman, girds them on." I cannot explain how that single sentence has influenced me, but I know that it has,... | |
 | Alexander Norman Jeffares - 1997 - 504 Seiten
...much rewritten 'Wanderings of Usheen', in the last lament of Oona that ends the 'Countess Cathleen': The years like great black oxen tread the world, And...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. AM 14. ERNEST RHYS ON YEATS 'S REVISIONS 1896 A review of 'Poems' (1895), by Ernest Rhys, 'The Academy',... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...places. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, (1914-1983) US dramatist. Tom, in The Class Menagerie, sc. 7 (1944). 18 The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman treads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, (1865-1939) Irish... | |
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. 
