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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DAWN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I would be ignorant as the dawn
Last Line: Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Dawn; Ignorance
First Line: I would be ignorant as the dawn
Last Line: Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Dawn; Ignorance
I WOULD be ignorant as the dawn
That has looked down
On that old queen measuring a town
With the pin of a brooch,
Or on the withered men that saw
From their pedantic Babylon
The careless planets in their courses,
The stars fade out where the moon comes,
And took their tablets and did sums;
I would be ignorant as the dawn
That merely stood, rocking the glittering coach
Above the cloudy shoulders of the horses;
I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --
Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.
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