Yeats seems to be reversing this trick in "The Fisherman," seems to be converting myth back into reality the ideal object of desire from a glimmering girl back into a trout.
It will become a display object, removed from reality, its terrible message tamed and transformed -- just another museum-style, climate controlled, artifact.
"As much as Baghdad might like to object, economy (sic) reality necessitates that it go along with the Kurds -- for now, " wrote Joost Hiltermann, an Iraq expert with the International Crisis Group, in a recent article on Foreign Policy.com.
