Yeats was not happy. He felt young poets and playwrights were lifting his work and presenting it as something new. This ‘beef poem’ is his proud response.
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A Coat
by William Butler Yeats (1914)
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.
