or more accurately Yeats reminds me of Tolkien ( since I read Tolkien
first). I've been reading the collected poems of Yeats recently and I
really find many of the images, descriptive language ( like the continual use
of "grey"), and themes to be similar to Tolkien's. I wonder if Yeats
specifically was any kind of inspiration to/influence on Tolkien. I am
not very well read so I'm not sure how many of the mythic elements of Yeats'
poems and type of language used are specific to Yeats and how many might be
found in many other writers of the same period ( Tolkien's youth and beyond).
Morwen's point about the grey eyes is one of the most memorable uses but there
are many
others.
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Field guides explain color,
vagrant range,
the vague translations of a song,
but nothing of the distance
that develops into absence.
-Walter Pavlich
