> An addendum to my response to Chuck, in reference to
> the polar opposites
> I mentioned there.
>
> "For England may yet keep faith . . ."
> W. B. Yeats
>
> "Charge once more, then, and be dumb!
> Let the victors, when they come,
> When the forts of folly fall,
> Find thy body by the wall!
> Matthew Arnold
> Yeats and Arnold were in many ways not so far apart;
> like independent
> marxists they each had this contradictory desire to
> be both part of and
> yet somehow "above" and independent of the cultural
> and/or political
> forces with which they (sort of) identified.
Carrol, if they're both part of and above the cultural and political forces with which they identified, are'nt they aesthetes?
A;ec
The
> (meticial _and_
> political) balance of Yeats's line is both exquisite
> and intolerable.
> Fall from that balance and one can only hope that
> the victor's will find
> thy body by the wall.
>
> Carrol
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