Tuesday, August 21, 2007

intertextual question?

A rather obscure literary question. I'd be interested to know whether you think these lines by Yeats:

'But seek alone to hear the strange things said /By God to the bright hearts of those long dead, /And learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know.'

sound like an echo of this from Corinthians:

"For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man
understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries"


or not.

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