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‘Yeats can be a challenging poet to read, both in terms of style and…
‘Yeats can be a challenging poet to read, both in terms of style and subject matter.’
'September 1913'
STYLE- BITTER LANGUAGE - biting and yet satisfying?' 'fumble in a greasy till,' 'add the halfpence to the pence.' REFRAINN - 'Romantic Ireland's Dead And Gone' - Really Hammers Home The Difficult Idea That Ireland Apparently Has No More Heroes to boast of. METAPHOR - 'was it for this the wild geese spread' - romantic idea of Robert Emmet, Wolfe Tone and Edward Fitzgerald as real, romantic heroes - twinning them with this image of swans and striving for freedom.
SUBJECT MATTER - CHALLENGING as Yeats proposes a very damning indictment of the middle classes? Difficult to Stomach This Knowing he came from ascendancy classes? Very bitter words. Hard to see things from his point of view? He is making a very personal grudge about the Hugh Lane gallery into a public affair by publishing it in The Irish Times. The Issue Doesn't even have anything to do with Yeats! It was Hugh Lane's Situation To Resolve With Dublin City Council. Difficult to identify Why He Feels The Arts Are So Hard Done By Considering Tenements in Dublin were Worst in Europe at the time? Only Sees Need For Art, Not For Money Elsewhere? Tunnel-vision?
Personally challenging in identifying As Catholic and middle class? Personally challenging in terms of wanting to support the arts but also recognising people must be housed appropriately?
'Easter 1916'
SUBJECT MATTER - 1916 Rising is a challenging topic for us in modern Ireland. Has It Been Romanticised For Us As A historical event One Hundred Years On? Do we find Yeats' realistic depiction a little too truthful? In 1916, the Rising divided opinions, now We Tend To Accept It As a Positive Event. Do we find Yeats' lack of surety unsettling? Was it terrible? Was it beautiful? Are we upset/ challenged/ disturbed by this?
STYLE - METAPHOR: 'too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart' - revolutionaries as a stone, unwilling to compromise their beliefs. REPETITION/ OXYMORON of 'Terrible beauty' - contradictory. We can be challenged by the contradiction - Reveals a truth about the Rising, both terrible and awful. STRUCTURE OF LINES - 16 - 24 - 16 - 24 Four stanzas long - reflects date of the poem.
SUBJECT MATTER - Challenging to see Yeats go back somewhat on his previous opinions? Makes us challenge our initial opinions about him?
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