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to teach.
And I am paid to ask them questions:
Dare man proceed by need alone?
Did Esau like
his pottage?
Is any heart in order after Belsen?
And when one stops to think, I'll catch his heel,
put scissors to him, excavate his chest!
Watch, freshmen, for my words about the past
can make you turn your back. I wait to throw,
most foul, most foul, the future in your face.
Both poems meditate on a project central to any life, academic or not: mediating between what we know or suppose of the past, and the future.
(William Butler Yeats's poem "Scholars" can be found in "The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats." Macmillan. Copyright 1940 by Georgie Yeats. Barry Spacks's poem "Freshmen" is from his book
"Spacks Street." Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.
Copyright 1982 by the Johns Hopkins University Press.)
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