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please help me with my english project. what is the attitude of this poem towards wisdom?
Wisdom by William Butler Yeats
The true faith discovered was
When painted panel, statuary.
Glass-mosaic, window-glass,
Amended what was told awry
By some peasant gospeller;
Swept the Sawdust from the floor
Of that working-carpenter.
Miracle had its playtime where
In damask clothed and on a seat
Chryselephantine, cedar-boarded,
His majestic Mother sat
Stitching at a purple hoarded
That He might be nobly breeched
In starry towers of Babylon
Noah’s freshet never reached.
King Abundance got Him on
Innocence; and Wisdom He.
That cognomen sounded best
Considering what wild infancy
Drove horror from His Mother’s breast.
and who is the speaker
I think this poem is an ironic depiction of wisdom as defined by the Church (Catholic, I suppose, since there is a reference to the Virgin Mary at the end, although Yeats had had an Protestant upbringing). The description is exaggerated, artificial, almost grotesque. Yeats is probably condemning the institutional definition of wisdom as opposed to the supposed “natural” wisdom of the simple people (“working-carpenter”).
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