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W.B Yeats (Techniques (Sonorants (Liquids, Glides, Nasals, Used to create…
W.B Yeats
Techniques
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Prosody
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Rhythm
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Caesura
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The silence created by a caesura makes you take note of what is being said, places emphasis on the words
Enjambment
= Run-on lines cause the reader to run out of air , which heightens the emotion.
Places
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Coole Park
- Where Lady Gregory's lived
- There is an Artesian lake which is linked to the ground water = the lake rises and falls suddenly according to the ground water
Thoor Ballylee Tower
In common with the Lake Isle of Innisfree:
- Isolation
- Elevation
- Remoteness
- Self-sufficiency
- Defiance
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Zeus
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Rapes a mortal woman named Leda, who then gives birth to two eggs. One of the eggs hatches Helen of Troy, who is half divine. Helen is abducted by Paris of Troy from her husband, a Spartan king called Menelaus, which triggers to the Trojan war.
Slept with many women, and even with his own children.
Just as Helen is the cause of the destruction of the city of Troy, Maud Gonne is the cause of the destruction of Yeats' happiness. Helen is compared to Maud Gonne.
People
Lady Gregory
- Was like a mother to Yeats, took him in after his mother's death, encouraged his art
- Scholar of Irish folklore
- Met Yeats in 1896
- "An Irish airman foresees his death" is about her son, Robert Gregory, that was killed in 1918 during the First World War
Maud Gonne
- Yeats' muse
- English-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette (sought the right to vote through organized protest) and actress
- Yeats spent 20 years to get her to marry him, but she refused
- She was very political and passionate about kicking the British out of Ireland (but Yeats believed in making Ireland self-sufficient from a spiritual point of view and that they would still be masters of their own destiny, regardless of who ruled Ireland)
- Had sex a couple of times with Yeats, but wasn't satisfied (perhaps it was his first time, he was very naive about sex)
- Had two children with Lucien Millevoye (French journalist) & then married John MacBride (Irish republican & military leader executed by the British for his participation in the 1916 Irish Easter Rising in Dublin)
- John MacBride raped Iseult Gonne (Maud's daughter)
- After John was executed, Yeats again asked Maud to marry him - she refused. Then he asked if Iseult will marry him - Maud refused again. So he married Georgiana Hyde-Lees.
Georgiana Hyde-Lees
- Yeats' wife
- On their wedding night, Yeats was writing letters to Maud Gonne. So Georg went into a fit and started writing what she claimed to be messages from the dead. This automatic writing went on for about 15 years. She used it to manipulate Yeats. E.g. If she wanted to get intimate, the messages would say "Mars in Venus".
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Japanese culture
Bushido = The way of the samurai / warrior (Japanese philosophy)
- The most important thing in life is to die with honour
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Uses Greek Mythology to talk about his human love which he wanted and couldn't get, because he cannot understand her - the gods are beyond human comprehension.