Commentary
The speaker of the poem is the character Aedh, who appears in Yeats's work alongside two other archetypal characters of the poet's myth: Michael Robartes and Red Hanrahan. The three are collectively known as the principles of the mind. Whereas Robartes is intellectually powerful and Hanrahan represents Romantic primitivism, Aedh is pale, lovelorn, and in the thrall of La belle dame sans merci. (The character "Aedh" is replaced in volumes of Yeats's collected poetry by a more generic "he".)
Read more about this topic: Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
Famous quotes containing the word commentary:
“Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)