William Butler Yeats‚ (June 13‚ 1865 d. June 28‚ 1939) is known today as one of the greatest poets of the English language from the 20th century. He was born in Dublin and raised as an Anglo-Irish Protestant. Yeats’s father attended Trinity College providing young William with an intellectual heritage. This aristocratic position‚ combined with his mother’s emotional heritage‚ which encompassed rural culture in the trade of ship-builders‚ gave Yeats a different perspective from many of his contemporaries
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a material thing. Over time it becomes incapable to continue in the physical world. The soul is trapped within the body‚ and when the body can no longer continue in the physical world the soul wants to transcend to an otherworldly plane. In William Butler Yeats’s poem “Sailing to Byzantium” the speaker describes the journey to release the soul from his ageing body. The poet uses imagery of life such as birds‚ trees‚ salmon‚ and mackerel crowded seas. These images of life are “The dying generations”
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G. Rudzewicz June‚ 2013 A SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE USING PUBLIC DOMAIN E-TEXTS I. The Anglo-Saxon Period A. Beowulf Gutenberg Project‚ e-text #981 B. The Seafarer C. Supplementary links a. suttonhoo.org b. staffordshirehoard.org.uk c. labyrinth.georgetown.edu II. The Middle Ages A. The Canterbury Tales‚ GP etext#2383 1. General Prologue 2. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” 3. “The Pardoner’s Tale” B. Popular Lyrics and Ballads C. Everyman GP etext#19481‚ Ernest Phelps‚ ed
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A Terrible Beauty Is Born “A terrible beauty is born“‚ this line is taken from the excellent poem “Easter 1916” by William Butler Yeats. W.B Yeats uses these words to describe the Easter Rising which resulted in the death of fifteen republican leaders along with their comrades. These events in Irish history have brought celebration but also a great deal of sorrow which Yeats describes perfectly with this clever oxymoron – A terrible beauty. A lot has changed since “Easter 1916” was written‚ yet
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“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time‚” (William Butler Yeats). Ophelia‚ a character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ was shown as being innocent. Most of the things she has done she was told to do it. She was doing her best to please her father even if that meant breaking the one she love’s heart. She was still showed innocent when she went mentally insane after the death of her father. No one really knows if her death in the play was suicide or not. W.G. Simmonds’ “The Drowning of Ophelia”
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In both pieces it explores the concept of loosing someone in somebody’s life. Specifically Yeats states " Come away o human child: to the waters and the wild." In other words the "faery’s" are seducing the child to follow them. Alike Chapin he conveys " But we’ll get together then‚ you know we’ll have a good time then. This interprets that the dad does not have time for his son and time seems to pass. Yeats and Chapin both share the story of someone loosing somebody. Even though they both share
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Each line of this poem represents Auden’s ideas of a great memorial for W B Yeats which is supported by the intentionally placed words‚ punctuations and innuendos. In the first few line of stanza stanza one Auden starts off by recreating what the present condition was like at the time of his death to create a gloomier atmosphere to get the readers attention. He does this in most of his poem‚ creating an atmosphere to get the readers attention such as now the leaves are falling fast. “Now the leaves
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45.2 (2011): 65-79 Cope‚ Wendy. Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006. Farber‚ 2008. Print. Cornford‚ Frances. Poems of To-Day: an Anthology. 1st. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library‚ 1997 Finneran‚ R. J. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats . 1st ed. Macmillan‚ 1989. Print. Mendelson‚ Edward. Selected Poems of W.H. Auden . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group‚ 2007 Poe‚ Edgar Allan. “Raven‚ The.”Columbia Granger ’s World of Poetry Online. 2012.Columbia University Press
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William B Yeats (1865-1939) From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) Men improve with the Years I am worn out with dreams; A weather-worn‚ marble triton Among the streams; And all day long I look Upon this lady’s beauty As though I had found in book A pictured beauty‚ Pleased to have filled the eyes Or the discerning ears‚ Delighted to be but wise‚ For men improve with the years; And yet and yet Is this my dream‚ or the truth? O would that we had met When I had my burning youth; But
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