Poem found here: "A Crazed Girl" by William Butler Yeats So when I reread this poem, the pop image that came to my mind was Sia's video "Chandelier" . Beautiful, artistic, but looks crazed. It's not that the girl in this poem is "crazed" -- this doesn't define her -- rather what is the cause of the "crazed emotion." And, this poem being a bit vers libre and a but reverse sonnet, proclaims here core passion, "That crazed girl improvising her music / Her poetry, dancing upon the shore." Her music, her poetry. Note the first stanza is more of an interpretation of her actions from the speaker upon seeing her art, "Her soul in division from itself / Climbing, falling she knew not where, / Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship." Note how the speaker starts creating a narrative of this crazed girl as to understand her actions, "Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare / A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing / Heroi...
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