The Dolls


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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, his earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display Yeats's debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900, Yeats's poetry grew more physical and realistic. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. (Wikipedia ) (0 hr 11 min)

Chapters

The Dolls - Read by BK 1:25 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Dolls - Read by CD 1:04 Read by CalmDragon
The Dolls - Read by DL 1:11 Read by David Lawrence
The Dolls - Read by DM 1:09 Read by Dafni Ma
The Dolls - Read by GG 1:19 Read by Greg Giordano
The Dolls - Read by JH 1:12 Read by Jude
The Dolls - Read by LAH 1:13 Read by Lee Ann Howlett
The Dolls - Read by MSD 1:01 Read by Matthew Datcher
The Dolls - Read by SS 1:01 Read by Scotty Smith
The Dolls - Read by TP 0:59 Read by Tomas Peter

Reviews

text of the poem


(4 stars)

THE DOLLS A doll in the doll-maker's house Looks at the cradle and balls: 'That is an insult to us.' But the oldest of all the dolls Who had seen, being kept for show, Generations of his sort, Out-screams the whole shelf: 'Although There's not a man can report Evil of this place, The man and the woman bring Hither to our disgrace, A noisy and filthy thing.' Hearing him groan and stretch The doll-maker's wife is aware Her husband has heard the wretch, And crouched by the arm of his chair, She murmurs into his ear, Head upon shoulder leant: 'My dear, my dear, oh dear, It was an accident.'