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" IF I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made. "
Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter - Página 9
por Barbara Robinette Moss - 2002 - 320 páginas
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Lebensalter Im Schöpferischen Prozess

Adolf Portmann, Rudolf Ritsema - 1973 - 460 páginas
...the vanities of a young girl interprets them as she sees them — as a search for the ideal self : If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright...looking for the face I had Before the world was made. (Before the World was Made) Yeats has been a dominant figure in the poetry of the Englishspeaking world...
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Selected Essays

Graham Hough - 1978 - 260 páginas
...on the vanities of a young girl interprets them as she sees them - as a search for the ideal self: If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright...looking for the face I had Before the world was made. ('Before the World was Made') V Yeats has been a dominant figure in the poetry of the English-speaking...
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Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations

Sy Safransky - 1990 - 174 páginas
...risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption. — Soren Kierkegaard I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. — William Butler Yeats In every man there lies hidden a child between five and eight years old, the age at which naivete comes...
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The Critical Romance: The Critic as Reader, Writer, Hero

Jean-Pierre Mileur - 1990 - 242 páginas
...nature or the Divine, but rather of his former selfless self. One thinks of Yeats' Blakean declaration: "I'm looking for the face I had / Before the world was made." 47 This final "apocalypse of imagination" in which the selfless self is restored is also associated...
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The Soul of Beauty: A Psychological Investigation of Appearance

Ronald Schenk - 1992 - 188 páginas
...Cassirer, The Individual, 28. 21. Ibid., 53. 22. Ibid., 28. 23. Ibid., 32. In like mind, Yeats wrote, "I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made." 24. Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1938), 137. 25. John Sallis,...
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Autobiography, Historiography, Rhetoric: A Festschrift in Honor of Frank ...

Mary Donaldson-Evans, Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, Gerald Prince - 1994 - 320 páginas
...moins d'enthousiasme: Mallarmé ("O miroir! ... J'ai de mon rêve épars connu la nudité"l, Yeats ("No vanity's displayed: / I'm looking for the face I had / Before the world was made"l, Werfel et son Spiegelmensch, Jung (et les êtres qui hantent les profondeurs du miroirl, Freud...
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A Personal Anthology

Jorge Luis Borges - 1967 - 234 páginas
...corner of a suburb. — Translated by ANTHONY KERRIGAN BIOGRAPHY OF TADEO ISIDORO CRUZ (1829-1874) I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made. — Yeats, A Woman Young and Old. On the sixth of February, 1829, the irregular troops beating their...
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Yeats and Alchemy

William T. Gorski - 1996 - 244 páginas
...The first stanza contains a paraphrase of the Zen koan, "What face did I have before I was born4-"40 If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright...lips more scarlet Or ask if all be right From mirror to mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made. (7? 270;...
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Yeats and Alchemy

William T. Gorski - 1996 - 244 páginas
...lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet Or ask if all be right From mirror to mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made. (7? 270; VP 53 1-32) Yeats is operating on the high paradox that earmarks much of spiritual poetry....
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Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery

Sander L. Gilman - 1999 - 422 páginas
...had control of the world. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) has his "A Woman Young and Old" fantasize: If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright...lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror to mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.5 It is...
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