William Yeats – Vestoj http://vestoj.com The Platform for Critical Thinking on Fashion Thu, 04 May 2023 05:45:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.5 The Coat http://vestoj.com/the-coat/ http://vestoj.com/the-coat/#respond Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:55:13 +0000 http://vestoj.com/?p=6037 I MADE MY SONG a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eye
As though they’d wrought it.
Song, let them take it
For there’s more enterprise
In walking naked.

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Frida Wannerberger is an illustrator and graphic designer based in London.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, writer and an influential figure of British literature. ‘The Coat’ was published in the May 1914 issue of Poetry Magazine.

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