Philosophy
A response to the ruthless mercenary employers who locked out their workers in the General Strike in 1913: the poem is also a comment on the refusal of commercial interests to support Yeats' appeal for money to build an Art Gallery to house the Lane collection. The poem is a scathing criticism of the mercenary materialism he felt was rampant in the Ireland of 1913. The Scrooge image first introduced in "fumble in a greasy till" is a devastating swipe at the captains of industry and commerce. The wooden till has become shiny (greasy) with over-use: the word "fumble" suggests the idea of the body being withered in the relentless pursuit of money for its own sake. Yet these people can justify or excuse their materialism through religion. That materialism and life of the spirit cannot be reconciled is tellingly conveyed in "pray and save". Prayer, love of God, something which is surely full of warmth and passion, is here described as "shivering". The barren, shivering hypocrisy of these......
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