The Dragon-Guarded Land
· 7 min read
A postcolonial reading of Yeats' "The Realists".
HOPE that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?— W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities (1914)
