There have been various interpretations of W. B. Yeats’s “The Cap and Bells”, but little attention has been paid to those elements of its organization which make it effective as poetry. This article is concerned less with what the poem means than with how it means, through the choice and placement of words, phrases, and images in a sequence that not only tells a story but shapes it so as to engage our feelings. The essence of this verbal artefact lies in the emotional progression, conveyed with consummate skill, from frustrated longing to fulfilment. Comparison between the version that Yeats first published in The National Observer in 1894 and the revised version included in The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) reveals Yeats’s increased technical skill.

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Fin-de-Siècle叶芝：“ The Cap and Bells”中的艺术性和影响力

WB Yeats的《 The Cap and Bells》有各种各样的诠释，但是很少注意其组织结构中的那些使它像诗歌一样有效的元素。通过选择和放置单词，词组和图像的顺序，本文不仅关注诗的含义，还关注诗的含义，其顺序不仅讲述一个故事，而且使故事成形以唤起我们的情感。这种言语假象的精髓在于，从沮丧的渴望到成就，以精湛的技巧传达出情感上的进步。叶芝（Yeats）于1894年在《国家观察家》（The National Observer）上首次发布的版本与《芦苇丛生的风》（1899）中包含的修订版之间的比较表明，叶芝（Yeats）具有更高的技术水平。