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Re: Aba Brother
The name of the place, Hippodrome, suggests a fraudulent (like hypocrisy) where in the hippodrome's chariot races, a predetemined person would win the race. The name, symbolically or metaphorically suggests W. B. Yeats' old age to be shunned or even made fun of, not in the least, revered. So later, he returns to the place mentally which, in ancient times, a very advanced culture. 
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posted by
anib
on November 27, 2022 at 10:32 PM
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Re: Aba Brother
Hippodrome is the key word (like hypocrisy), wherein people in the stadium were made fool of. The chariots races seemed excitingly real, but the winner was a premeditated one, fraudulent. This, sybolically, also became a mataphor for W.B.Yeats where the old and weak we're not revered but made fun of, rejected ... and so he had to leave the country for ever. He later, mentally sails back to Byzantium.
posted by
anib
on November 27, 2022 at 10:21 PM
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Re: Kabu ma’am,
These types of poems are educative and informative and I too like them very much. They really make one's focus interesting and sharp in memory.
posted by
anib
on November 27, 2022 at 10:11 PM
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Aba Brother
A lovely trip through Yeats-land, which I enjoyed very much. While in the world in which Yeats dwelled there may have been "no place for old men," figurately or literally, in other cultures elders are revered. I do hope that will be the case in the future also. His point and his poem though, of course, are masterpieces. Thank you so much, dear Aba. 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on November 27, 2022 at 5:13 PM
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Thank you. I learned so much from your post today. Yeats ...I haven't studied at all or if so I don't remember....my body and brain are reaching the old age thing....
posted by
Kabu
on November 27, 2022 at 2:32 PM
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