What lively lad most pleasured me
Of all that with me lay? I answer that I gave my soul And loved in misery, But had great pleasure with a lad That I loved bodily. Flinging from his arms I laughed To think his passion such He fancied that I gave a soul Did but our bodies touch, And laughed upon his breast to think Beast gave beast as much. I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes. But when this soul, its body off, Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows, And give his own and take his own And rule in his own right; And though it loved in misery Close and cling so tight, There's not a bird of day that dare Extinguish that delight. In William Butler Yeats’ poem, “A Last Confession,” figuring out who the speaker is can be a bit confusing in the beginning. At least it was for me. However, when I got to the third stanza, line thirteen says, “I gave what other women gave.” At that point, I questioned my first thought of the speaker, which was William Butler Yeats and he talking about himself and a homosexual encounters in his past. This line proved to me that he was actually saying this poem from the perspective of a woman. Then, I finalized the speaker as a woman who had been with many men I her time. Not to say she was a “hoe,” but she got around. The tone of the poem can be identified as slightly comical and arousing. I say arousing because she brings up a man of which she has been with and loved the physical pleasures that he gave her. This is obvious from tine such as 1 and 2 (what lively lad most pleasured me of all that with me lay?), line 10 (but did our bodies touch), and more. The comical side comes from the woman laughing at the man thinking that she gave him her soul just because they had sex (He fancied that I gave a soul) and she thinks it is funny that he thinks in such a way when all that happened was sexual intercourse and nothing more (I laughed). The theme of the passage is probably that when it comes to sex, people should think of it as just that until proven to be more.
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