The title to this series of articles comes from a poem by W.B. Yeats “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”: ……………………..Now that my ladders gone I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart It was published at the end of his life and it’s about a crisis and how to respond to it. The nature of the crisis is the failure of old ideas that had been relied upon (the circus animals which have deserted). It’s a recognition that ideas he had about himself and the world around him were not realistic, they were an illusion, he made them up. And now he has to start again.
Ladders
Ladders
Ladders
The title to this series of articles comes from a poem by W.B. Yeats “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”: ……………………..Now that my ladders gone I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart It was published at the end of his life and it’s about a crisis and how to respond to it. The nature of the crisis is the failure of old ideas that had been relied upon (the circus animals which have deserted). It’s a recognition that ideas he had about himself and the world around him were not realistic, they were an illusion, he made them up. And now he has to start again.