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    Yeats explores the tension between the real world and the ideal world in many of his poems. The natural world‚ rich with the peaceful sounds of honey-bees and ‘linnet’s wings’‚ is compared to the greyness of city life. He contrasts the heroic idealism of the patriots who died for Ireland with the drab merchant class who ‘add the halfpence to the pence.’ Elsewhere his poetry is alive with the tension between the feverish mortal life of ‘fish‚ flesh and foul’ and the desire for immortality. In his

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    Yeats 2014 “Yeats uses evocative language to create poetry that includes both personal reflection and public commentary.” Discuss this statement‚ supporting your answer with reference to both themes and language found in the poetry of W B Yeats on your course. “Easter 1916” is a prime example of how Yeats uses striking language to create poetry that has both personal reflection and public commentary. I was impressed by the clever structure of the poem. It has four stanzas‚ two containing sixteen

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    An inherent tension between stability and change is revealed through recurring images in Yeats’ poetry. To what extent does your interpretation of Yeats’ The Second Coming and at least one other poem align with this view? William Butler Yeats’ poetry possesses strong imagery and themes of stability and change. Two of the poems‚ which especially highlight these elements‚ are The Second Coming and The Wild Swans At Coole. Within both of these poems the recurring imagery conjures creates strong

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    Easter 1916 : William Butler Yeats - Summary and Critical Analysis       Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats is a poem about an Irish immature revolutionary plan which became unsuccessful to overthrow the British reign in Ireland. About fifteen hundred people participated in this revolution to seize the government office building of Dublin on Easter morning‚ but three hundred of them were killed on the spot‚ and more than two hundred people were taken as prisoner and tortured. In Easter 1916‚ poet

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    Samantha Clark Forster ENLT 2523 19 September 2011 Yeats and the Everlasting “Everything exists‚ everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet‚” writes the famed William Butler Yeats on one of his favorite subjects: eternity. Yeats’s poetry often deals with the conflict of the temporal and the eternal. The chronology of Yeats’s life allows for a very interesting exploration of this conflict—coming of age at the end of the nineteenth century‚ Yeats’s literary career

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    Yeats Poetry Essay “Yeats sees the poem as a complex relationship of images‚ rhythms and sounds which‚ in conjunction‚ becomes a symbol for emotional experiences otherwise inexpressible in words” The poetry of W.B Yeats is highly valued today as it explores many issues that are important to his audience and their perception of both themselves and the history of their world. Yeats reflects upon many issues of his life and his world that the audience can empathise with and appreciate. Such ideas

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    the lords and ladies of Byzantium. EASTER 1916 In "Easter 1916‚" Yeats asserts that Ireland and its people have been "changed utterly"(79). Yeats memorializes the individuals who sacrificed their lives in the Easter Rebellion as a tribute their ability to transform themselves and the history of Ireland. Through "A terrible beauty"(16) of rebellion and chaos‚ the leaders of the Easter Rebellion and Irish people assert their coming of age. In "Easter 1916‚" Yeats suggests that Ireland had to affirm

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    September 1913: - Expresses Yeats’ frustration over how violence is not the way forward‚ however peaceful Ireland is ‘with O’Leary in the grave’ and all that is left is violence. - Significant date‚ general strike where workers were shut out of factories as their employers did not want to acquiesce to better working conditions / wages - Materialism infected merchant’s minds Form: - Ballad‚ has a clear chorus - Popular form in Irish Culture - One of Yeats’ most sarcastic poems‚ he chooses

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    interesting in themselves and help to make sense of the period of cultural crisis that defined abstraction‚ fragmentation‚ pastiche‚ tricks of perspective and surrealism in modern literature and painting: T.S. Eliot The Waste Land (Part 1)‚ W. B. Yeats ‘The Second Coming’‚ Gertrude Stein Picasso (selections) and paintings by Picasso and Dalí. Discussion includes the teaching advantages of the new iPad The Waste Land application and a range of easier novels. Modernism (about 1880 – 1939) is a cultural

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    WB Yeats was born in 1865 in Dublin. His parents were John Butler Yeats‚ a portrait painter‚ and Susan Pollexfen. His family was upper class‚ Protestant and of Anglo-Irish descent. His ancestors were church rectors. The Yeats family had aspirations to maintain its wealth and traditions and this shaped WB Yeats and his poetry. At the age of two‚ Yeats moved with his family to London‚ where they remained for Yeat’s childhood. He developed an affinity with Sligo because he spent a lot of summers with

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