Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Tower
7. Is wisdom compatible with life and power according to this poem?
Bloo and the moon
Page 133-35
Bloo and the moon
Page 133-35
I think Yeats points out that the moon symbolizes wisdom, 'a property of the dead,/A something incompatible with life'. He does however link wisdom with the dead and power with the living.