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1913
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Entire Poem – Use of Rhetorical questions ‘What need you’, Was it for this the Wild Geese spread’, ‘All that delirium of the brave?’
fully support Yeats use of rhetorical questions to condemn the Catholic middle class. -Firstly, they put greater emphasis on Yeats sense of anger.
-Secondly, September 1913’s rhetorical questions are great at emphasising just how distant the Catholic middle – class are to the heroes of the past.
Throughout ‘September 1913’, Yeats uses rhetorical questions to expertly attack the Catholic middle-class.
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You’d cry, ‘Some woman’s yellow hair / Has maddened every mother’s son’
The poet uses allusion, an established symbol of Ireland, to illustrate how Irish patriotism has degenerated.
In this instance, though nationalistic myself, I am against Yeats. Though noble, expecting the young men of Ireland to fight for Ireland based on a romanticised fictional symbol of Ireland is unrealistic, foolish, and illogical.
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But let them be, they’re dead and gone, / They’re with O’Leary in the grave
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Though seemingly negative, I interpret the ending as positive. I believe the purpose of the ending was to reiterate to the reader what has been lost, and so what may be needed in the future – a call to the ‘O’Leary’s’ of the future.
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave.
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the refrain symbolises the selflessness and idealism of past Irish heroes - qualities which are 'dead and gone'