He suggests that city folk, like those in Dublin, have “shut their lips” to their heritage, while urban artists refuse to represent this poetry. In the preface, Synge refers to the poetry and “full flavour” of Ireland's native language and dialects. Where the program note served as a defensive justification for his work, this published preface is more profound in delivering his theory of writing.
This preface is an updated and expanded version of the note Synge attached to the program for the ill-received performances at the Abbey a year earlier. Synge penned this preface to The Playboy of the Western World for the 1909 publication of his Collected Works.
In Ireland, for a few years more, we have a popular imagination that is fiery, and magnificent and tender. In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple, and such speeches cannot be written by anyone who works among people who have shut their lips on poetry.
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