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☆ Opinion: The magic art of changing your mind
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Opinion Tess Taylor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The poem shows a human speaker in the vulnerable act of changing their mind. Keats doesn’t want to be in the sky, eternally (and probably uncomfortably) unblinking, or even to be an “Eremite,” — which is just a fancy word for hermit. Keats doesn’t want to be distant at all, it turns out. It was the poem’s role to change its mind out loud, by setting out one way and then changing course. I’m not saying that poetry doesn’t have a place to hold our rage.

Persons: Tess Taylor, John Keats, Tess Taylor Adrianne, Keats, Keats doesn’t, he’d, He’s, what’s, certainties, ”, —, WB Yeats, I’m Organizations: “, CNN, Hulton, Twitter, WB Locations: absolutes

☆ Opinion: What could fall apart after Trump’s victory
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. CNN —In 2018, Irish journalist Fintan O’Toole proposed the “Yeats Test” to determine how bad things are in the world. Although … Haley is the last contender standing between former President Donald Trump and the Republican nomination…most Republican voters do not want an alternative to Trump; they overwhelmingly back him. Polling shows Trump even leads Haley in her home state of South Carolina.”Haley’s quest is going nowhere, wrote Daniel McCarthy. Join us on Twitter and FacebookTrump’s election-night needling of South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who endorsed the president over Haley, stood out.

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☆ Charlie’s Bar: A little bar in Northern Ireland has won hearts across the world with its moving holiday commercial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

But one little bar in Northern Ireland, Charlie’s Bar, has eclipsed them all this year, producing a heart-warming commercial that has gone viral, as social media users praised its “beautiful message” and “poignant” storyline. The video, which is just over two minutes long, finishes with a quote often attributed to the poet W.B. Its manager, Una Burns, worked closely with Teague to produce the commercial. Teague said Burns and a friend came up with the storyline after encountering several customers who were lonely and came to the bar in search of company. “I think this video has really impacted people in ways that we’d hoped but in some ways that we never imagined, either.”

Persons: John Lewis, W.B . Yeats, ” “, ” Aoife Teague, Una Burns, Teague, Burns, ” Teague, Missy, Martin McManus, ” “ There’s, ”, “, we’d Organizations: CNN, Disney, Charlie’s, Facebook Locations: British, Northern Ireland, Enniskillen, Belfast, ”, Canada, United States, Germany

☆ Stephen Sondheim Doesn’t Want to Be Your Savior - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Ben Brantley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

It should be noted that, when he was alive, Mr. Sondheim was aware of and amused by rampant tendencies to deify him. Consider this sardonic ditty from a show called “Sondheim on Sondheim,” a 2010 Broadway revue commemorating his 80th birthday. He wrote the song in response to a 1994 headline in New York magazine that asked, “Is Stephen Sondheim God?” His musical answer: “You have to have something to believe in. There’s a half-voiced fear among musical acolytes, understandable in a time in which theater itself is newly under siege, that on some level Stephen Sondheim represents the end of the line for a once-flourishing art form. Yet none, with the qualified exception of Mr. Miranda, seem likely to engender the kind of enduring, passionate cult that Mr. Sondheim has inspired.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden paid tribute to the power of poetry as she honored the 2023 class of National Student Poets on Monday at the White House, saying poetry “feeds our spirit." Political Cartoons View All 1244 ImagesThe poets receive scholarships and serve as literary ambassadors, bringing poetry to their communities through service projects, poetry readings, workshops and other opportunities. Jill Biden said she hoped the students would remember the experience of visiting the White House. She also hosted last year's class of National Student Poets. “And I hope you know that President Biden, the vice president, the second gentleman and I see you, we hear you, and we’re counting on you to keep going.

Persons: — Jill Biden, ”, Gabriella Miranda, Kallan McKinney, Hou, St, Louis, Miles Hardingwood, Jacqueline Flores, Fort, Joe Biden, Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats, Jill Biden, “, Biden Organizations: WASHINGTON, White, Student Locations: United States, Salt Lake City, Norman , Oklahoma, New York City, Fort Meade , Florida

☆ Dublin Marathon Medals Commemorate Yeats, and Misquote Him
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Emmett Lindner | More About Emmett Lindner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Though the quote is widely attributed to Yeats online, there is no record of him having ever written or said the line, said Susan O’Keeffe, the director of the Yeats Society Sligo in Sligo, Ireland. “The thing about Yeats that’s worth bearing in mind is that an awful lot of his letters and his articles and his essays were kept,” Ms. O’Keeffe said. The organizers “set out to do a good thing, and they have done a good thing,” she said. The organizers of the Dublin Marathon, which was established in 1980 and is sold out this year with 22,500 runners, have over the years used the medal design as a way to commemorate prominent figures who have contributed to Irish society. Some of the commentary this year has centered on “the view that this quote has never definitively been proven to be Yeats,” said Sinéad Galvin, a spokeswoman for the marathon.

Persons: Yeats, Susan O’Keeffe, Ms, O’Keeffe, “, ”, Sinéad Galvin Organizations: Yeats Society Sligo, Dublin Marathon Locations: Sligo, Ireland

☆ He Was Tortured During the Troubles. ‘They’re Trying to Kill Me.’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Tom Besley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Fifty-two years later, as a young man in 1971, Mr. Auld was one of 14 civilians accused of having links to the I.R.A. and tortured by the British forces in Northern Ireland. Another 52 years have since passed, and Mr. Auld is now an experienced falconer, a pursuit that has allowed him to find some measure of calm. In 1978, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that he and the other detainees — known as the Hooded Men — weren’t tortured. Mr. Auld continues to call for their full responsibility: “As human beings, we are better than this.”

Persons: Jim Auld, ”, William Butler Yeats, “, falconer, Auld, weren’t Organizations: Independence, of Human Rights, The Police Service of Northern Locations: Ireland, British, Northern Ireland, Belfast, The Police Service of Northern Ireland

☆ What Sinead O’Connor Meant to Ireland - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Susan Mckay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I was singing, fired up by the thrilling energy of “Mandinka,” when I became aware of flashing blue lights. On Wednesday, Ms. O’Connor’s body was found in a London apartment. Auden wrote of Yeats, “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.” Cruel Ireland hurt Ms. O’Connor into song. She was furious that in a country that had supposedly fought for and won its freedom, women and children were so silenced and disempowered. She understood and had experienced pain, neglect and injustice and sang for those who also knew these things.

Persons: Sinead O’Connor’s, Auden, Yeats, “, Ms, O’Connor Locations: Republic, London, Ireland

☆ Opinion: The surprising antidote to burnout
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Opinion Tess Taylor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Community feels good. Activism feels good. Cultivating feels good. Sometimes we go out and work in community because we want to alter and renew our sense of what is possible. Last year, author Laura Vanderkam wrote in The New York Times that quitting is not the answer to burnout.

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Markets lacked conviction
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Markets lacked conviction, while the debate over the U.S. debt ceiling remained roiled by passionate intensity. This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Markets lacked conviction, while the debate over the U.S. debt ceiling remained roiled by passionate intensity, to borrow the words of Irish poet W. B. Yeats. Subscribe here to get this report sent directly to your inbox each morning before markets open.

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Markets’ ‘lack of conviction’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

☆ Opinion | Promising Signs for Free Speech on Campus
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” has been called the most plundered poem in the English language, and it’s easy to see why. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”When I read these words, dramatic, violent events come first to mind. The Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6 is a prime example of the “passionate intensity” of one of the worst movements in American life. With each mass shooting, I think, “Things fall apart.”But there are other ways in which the center finds itself under siege. I’ve never interpreted the center in Yeats’s poem to mean something like a politically moderate middle but rather a moral foundation, the ideological core of a nation and its people.

☆ Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Stern, New Jersey’s first poet laureate, died Thursday at Calvary Hospice in New York City, according to his longtime partner, Anne Marie Macari. He regarded “The One Thing in Life,” from the 1977 collection “Lucky Life,” as the poem that best defined him. Stern studied political science at the University of Pittsburgh and received a master’s in comparative literature from Columbia University. They had two children, Rachael Stern Martin and David Stern. Or get laid.”Besides Macari and his children, Stern is survived by grandchildren Dylan and Alana Stern and Rebecca and Julia Martin.

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