Responsibilities: Poems (1914) Glossary

by William Butler Yeats

Responsibilities: Poems (1914) Glossary

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Written by Lina Christoph

indignant

outraged, annoyed, angry

curlew

a type of bird

courtier

a person living and working at a royal court

lineament

facial characteristics

King Eochaid

believed to have ruled a Scottish kingdom in the 9th century

tint

color (shade of color)

hither and thither

old, poetic form of "here and there"

to and fro

old, poetic form of "back and forth"

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