And that may be the most important fact about it.When Yeats aestheticizes the political, he makes it moving, moving in the literal sense of, I think, emotionally engaging and cathartic.

• 中国人喜欢旗帜鲜明，要每个人都明确“表态”“站队”，“顺者昌逆着亡”，今天依然如此，人民群众、民主斗士以及上面都差不多如此。