A Coat
A Coat - meaning Summary
Art Reclaimed by Simplicity
Yeats compares his poem to an embroidered coat fashioned from myth and tradition, then laments that others have appropriated and displayed it as their own. He chooses to relinquish that borrowed ornamentation, arguing that creative freedom and integrity lie in 'walking naked'—in returning to simplicity and personal enterprise rather than guarding a decorated identity imposed by the world.
Read Complete AnalysesI made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But he fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.
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