A 21st Century Depiction of a 1919 Yeats Poem Framed Print

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This painting is my 21st Century version of the ending of W. B. Yeats' "A Prayer for My Daughter," 1919:

"How but in custom and in ceremony
Are innocence and beauty born?
Ceremony's a name for the rich horn,
And custom for the spreading laurel tree."

Yeats bases the poem on numerous references to varied folk-classical Greco-Roman-Irish mythologies of Daphne and Apollo, and with his deep involvement with long-standing Irish - British hostile politics and violent skirmishes. Along with that now hopefully remote complexity, Yeats' interweaves his own personal symbols and religious-political beliefs and biases.

In the basic story, Apollo falls in love with Daphne, godess of the moon, virginity, and forests. But as Apollo pursues Daphne, she is saved from rape by being turned into a Laurel tree. In some versions Apollo then is turned into a hunting horn! In Yeats' poem, this relationship represents something like a two-bedroom peacefull co-e...

REACH BEYOND, my logo and general theme and goal, usually is the first painting on the left of the top row, or near there. Go ahead and click on it now to open it up for a much better look. And if you're interested, then just go on to more of the paintings. You can always come back and read what I wrote about me. But I seriously hope that these paintings present various facets of my perceptions of our world -- or wishes FOR it -- more vividly -- or at least differently -- than writing can. They mutely show what objects and situations I think merit attention and from what points of view I choose to present them and in what medium and style. I hope that perhaps some, or even a part of one, will touch and vibrate with some part of you,...

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