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“All Souls’ Night” is the last poem in William Butler Yeats’s most important collection of poetry, The Tower (1928). Organized into ten stanzas of ten lines each, it is a meditation, during All...
And it is All Souls’ Night, And two long glasses brimmed with muscatel. Bubble upon the table. A ghost may come; For it is a ghost’s right, His element is so fine. Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath. While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.
At midnight on All Souls' Night, the bells of Christ Church and other churches in Dublin ring through a room. Two glasses of wine bubble, and the speaker calls upon a ghost to drink the wine vapor. He chants:
All Souls' Night. MIDNIGHT has come, and the great Christ Church Bell. And may a lesser bell sound through the room; And it is All Souls' Night, And two long glasses brimmed with muscatel. Bubble upon the table. A ghost may come; For it is a ghost's right, His element is so fine.
All Souls' Night. Epilogue to "A Vision'. Midnight has come, and the great Christ Church Bell And may a lesser bell sound through the room; And it is All Souls' Night, And two long glasses brimmed with muscatel Bubble upon the table. A ghost may come; For it is a ghost's right, His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from ...
May 13, 2011 · An analysis of the All Souls' Night poem by William Butler Yeats including schema, poetic form, metre, stanzas and plenty more comprehensive statistics.
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Bubble upon the table. A ghost may come; For it is a ghost's right, His element is so fine. Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath. While our gross palates drink from the whole wine. I need some mind that, if the cannon sound. From every quarter of the world, can stay. Wound in mind's pondering.
