Part three of my personal tribute to Yeats and his 150th anniversary.
I remember a scene or two from the 1986 film “Peggy Sue Got Married” (directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Kathleen Turner) in which Yeats’s poetry was mentioned. In case you haven’t seen this movie: Peggy Sue Bodell is an unhappily married, forty-something woman who attends her high school reunion and wonders what her life would have been like if she’d just made some different choices.
She finds out soon enough, when she faints at the reunion and time-travels back to her senior year of high school.
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