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A COAT by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: I MADE MY SONG A COAT
Last Line: IN WALKING NAKED.
Subject(s): IMAGINATION; POETRY & POETS; VISION; FANCY;

I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.



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