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Imagery in Yeats’s Poem An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (875 words, 1 pages)

Death Up Above The most improbable way of dying, is not knowing where the deathblow came from. To fight for what is right is not always wrong to fight for something wrong is not always right. But to fulfill your duties as a soldier for your country is always right. ... Read More

Reflections of the Past in William Wordsworth’s The World is Too Much With Us and W.B. Yeats’ Among School Children (240 words, 1 pages)

The poem "The World is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth, is similar to the poem "Among School Children" by W.B. Yeats, in many ways but different in many other ways. "The World is Too Much With Us" is a poem that symbolizes negativity. The poem deals with the ... Read More

Yeats Poems Compare and Contrast (1405 words, 4 pages)

W.B Yeats is an author of various poems in the late 1800s and early 1900s in Ireland. Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1865 to a famous Irish painter John Butler Yeats. As a child he lived in County Sligo and in London but at age fifteen he moved ... Read More

A Study of the Literary Characteristics of the Works of William B. Yeats (2031 words, 5 pages)

William B. Yeats has become both a celebrated and controversial figure throughout his career and beyond, the reasons for which can be found in some of his poems and in the opinions of modern historians and academics. Quality readings of Yeats have contributed greatly to my understanding of his poems ... Read More

Overcoming the Pain of Existence Through the Idea of Aging and Reflection in William Butler Yeats’ The Wild Swans at Coole and Among School Children (1080 words, 3 pages)

Module B- Critical Study of Texts (Yeats Wild Swans at Coole Among School Children)Q Great texts take the pain of existence and try to make sense of itYeats poetry effectively communicates potent and universal ideas, which continue to make his poetry of relevance to today. His excellence in artistic expression ... Read More

The Rapist God in Leda and the Swan, a Poem by W.B. Yeats (1034 words, 4 pages)

Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats is a poem based on the Greek myth where Leda, daughter of Thestius king of Aetolia and wife of Tyndaerus king of Sparta, is raped by the god Zeus in the form of a Swan. That same night she lays with her ... Read More

The Concept of Parallelism in An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by W.B. Yeats (709 words, 3 pages)

Parallelism (noun) the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. (Oxford Dictionary)An Irish Airman Foresees his Death by William Butler Yeats is a work of complete parallelism in its style and content. This serves the purpose of letting the ... Read More

Mythology and History in No Second Troy, a Poem by William Butler Yeats (2064 words, 8 pages)

Two Wooden Horses The poem No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats is composed of four sentences comprehending a question within each of them. The format of this poem is into a twelve line iambic pentameter for the reason that the poem has a kind of lyric to help in ... Read More

An Analysis of Among School Children, a Poem by W.B. Yeats (658 words, 2 pages)

Among School Children explores the reflection of life and mortality, as famous Irish author Yeats confronts the mistakes of his past. In Among School Children, Yeats explores the motivations and values of humanity through the speakers confrontation of his own mortality supported by allusion, structure and diction.The work begins with ... Read More

Modernist Poetry in A Dream of Death and The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats (1489 words, 5 pages)

Modernist Poetry Modernist Literature was predominately an English genre of fiction writing. New technology and the events of both World Wars, mainly World War I, made many people question the future of humanity. William Butler Yeats started out as a late Romantic poet but later became a modernist poet. Modernist ... Read More

The Description of Ireland in September 1913, a Poem by W. B. Yeats (664 words, 2 pages)

Explore the presentation of Ireland in September 1913 September 1913 is a poem about the death of the Romantic Ireland and Yeates disappointment in the loss of it. Through the imagery of death and sorrow, it explores the mourning of the old Ireland and the death of the people who ... Read More

The Synthesis of Thematic Binaries in Among School Children by William Butler Yeats (1331 words, 5 pages)

AnalyticalResearch Paper Among School ChildrenWritten in 1926 following a visit to a convent school Waterford, Ireland, Among School Children by William Butler Yeats, is a multilayered poem--a meditation by an aging man on life, love, and creativity. Didactic in certain areas, this poem possesses an overarching transcendence as Yeats considers ... Read More

Finding Your Own Inner Peace: An Interpretation of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, a Poem by W.B. Yeats (789 words, 3 pages)

Written by WB Yeats in the year 1888, The Lake Isle of Innisfree artfully packages the themes of serenity, the soul, and dreams in a way that only poetry can. Although written over 125 years ago, readers today find WB Yeats poem both relatable and applicable to trials of the ... Read More

The Themes of Loss, Grief and Remembrance in W. H. Auden’s In Memory of W. B. Yeats (2018 words, 6 pages)

Within Audens, In Memory of W.B. Yeats, a central theme can be seen through the usage of diction, tone, and imagery. Auden uses these devices in order to make the reader completely aware of the theme of loss, grief, and remembrance or reverence. Within the work, nature can be seen ... Read More

Challenges and Faith to Christianity in the Victorian Era by Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Butler Yeats (850 words, 4 pages)

Challenges and faith to Christianity in the Victorian Era by Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Butler Yeats During the Victorian age, there were many challenges to the Christian faith and to the Bible itself. These challenges to religion were the following rationalist thought, science, and higher criticism. People who were ... Read More

A Comparison of the Works of Mairtin O Direain and Michael Davitt (2305 words, 7 pages)

The two writers that will be discussed here due to their negotiation of Irish identity through their works are Mirtn Direin and Michael Davitt. Both writers wrote prolifically in the Irish language.However, both have very dissimilar backgrounds in that Direin was born and raised speaking the language on the island ... Read More

The Commemoration of the Rebels in Easter 1916, a Poem by William Butler Yeats (604 words, 2 pages)

A Fight till the DeathIn Easter 1916, by William Butler Yeats, the death of Irish revolutionaries is mourned in a rather unusual way. Instead of specifically focusing on the good impacts that the rebels had on Ireland throughout the poem, Yeats slowly builds upon the actions of the rebels, as ... Read More

Authentic Irish Identity in the Powerful Text Cathleen Ni Houlihan by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory (1481 words, 5 pages)

In an interview with Sean O Cuirreain, Ireland's first languagecommissioner, he says, "We have two simple choices - to look back at Irishas our lost language or forward with it as a core part of our heritage andsovereignty" (Mclntyre). Most of the texts that were read this semesterillustrate the struggle ... Read More

The Inevitable Aging and the Fading of Beauty in the Poem of W.B. Yeats (383 words, 2 pages)

Ill say and maybe dream I have drawn contentSeeing that time has frozen up the blood,The wick of youth being burned and the oil spentFrom beauty that is cast out of a mouldIn bronze, or that in dazzling marble appears,Appears, but when we have gone is gone again,Being more indifferent ... Read More

The Mechanisms of the Fairy to Coax the Child from His Home in the Poem The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats (697 words, 4 pages)

The Stolen Child In 1886, William Butler Yeats constructed the timeless piece calledThe Stolen Child. This piece is based on an Irish legend about faeriestaking children. Yeats wrote this poem during a time when the CelticRevival was a very important movement for Ireland. In this essay, I willexplore the mechanisms ... Read More

An Analysis of the Reflections on the Apocalypse and the Second Coming of Christ in the Art and Poetry of William Blake and William Butler Yeats (2497 words, 9 pages)

Blake and Yeats Vision of the ApocalypseWilliam Blake and William Butler Yeats both reflected on the apocalypse and the second coming of Christ in their art and poetry. Yeats takes a darker look at the second coming, comparing the Christian age he was in as a widening gyre where the ... Read More

The Definition of Love in the Poem When You Are Old by W.B. Yeats (1293 words, 4 pages)

Even without knowing W.B. Yeats, one can quickly assume that he may have written When You Are Old to his past lover, someone he cares for, or someone he knows very well. But more than just that, the poem seems to suggest that it is very easy to overlook unconditional ... Read More

An Interpretation of The Coming of Wisdom with Time, a Poem by William Butler Yeats (572 words, 2 pages)

The Coming of Wisdom with TimeThe poem The Coming of Wisdom with Time by William Butler Yeats is about growing older and the social results of it. A line that I find particularly interesting is Through all the lying days of my youth because there are so many different interpretations ... Read More

An Analysis of Personification in the Stolen Child, a Poem by W. B. Yeats (514 words, 2 pages)

As defined in The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms, personification is a figure of speck in which human traits and characteristics are given to anything that is nonhuman. This includes abstract ideas, objects, and animals. As humans, we are able to perform a wide variety of actions, and ... Read More

An Analysis of Yeats’ Poem An Irishman Foresees His Death (829 words, 3 pages)

Critics of some stature, Eliot, Auden and A.L Johnson see Yeats mature work as embodying a life-affirming poetic of enactment and presence. Yeats poem An Irishman Foresees His Death seems, however, on first reading to be a Nihilistic concession to universal futility. A reasonable proposition if one considers that the ... Read More

The Life, Literature and Spirituality of William Butler Yeats, an English Poet (968 words, 5 pages)

William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats is said to be one of the greatest poets in the English language (Online). Yeats was very interested in Irish politics and the Occult, both of which influenced his literary work. He was also involved in the Celtic Revival Movement and founded the Abbey, an ... Read More

The Spiritual Imagery in The Root Doctor of Rock n Roll by Quincy Troupe and The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats (783 words, 3 pages)

Both Yeats and Quincy Troupe used spiritual imagery in their poetry.Both "The Root Doctor of Rock n Roll" and "The Second Coming" are full ofspiritual imagery, but the main pieces used were the sphinx, theapocalypse, the spiritual interconnectedness of all people, and the "RootDoctor" or supernatural healing power. In William ... Read More

Exposing the Hard Work Through Personification, Analogy and Metaphysical Conceit in The Balloon of the Mind by W.B. Yeats (639 words, 3 pages)

The Fleeting MindA poets struggle to write is one of the last places one would think to draw inspiration yet, in W.B. Yeats poem The Balloon of the Mind, the narrator does just that. The four-lined poem, using personification, analogy, and an overarching metaphysical conceit, manages to expose the hard ... Read More

An Analysis of Septimus’ Character in the Poem Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats (1632 words, 6 pages)

The Great War was one of the major conflicts that humanity has ever witnessed. It was the first time in which whole nations and not just little countries fought to death. In modern times these kinds of phenomena are approached from a moral point of view and always seen as ... Read More

An Analysis of Blank Verse in The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats (1779 words, 5 pages)

Blank Verse Paper The Second ComingThe Second Coming is a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1919. It is written in blank verse, is 22 lines long, and is written mostly in iambic pentameter however, many lines deviate from this meter, which lends the poem a unique feel. The ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013