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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS - Coggle Diagram
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
life
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fell in love with Maude Gonne, actress and activist which rejected him
married a medium, Georgie Hyde-Lees, which influenced his writings a lot
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style
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symbols
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stone (eternity, sterility)
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different phases
second, disappointed in reality, bitter considerations, more realistic
third, recalls metaphysical poems, lucid style and clever images
first, sentimental, imitates Blake
fourth, most pessimistic one, simple and detached style
works
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The second coming
1919, refers to the Antichrist, refers to his view of history, two stanzas, written during the second phase
stanza 1 talks about our civilization, which is falling apart from a lack of values, a falcon cannot hear the falconer's call because it's in a state of confusion, doubt has killed the faith of good people while bad people thrive
stanza 2 describes a horrendous beast coming from the desert, it will be born in Bethlehem (comparison between the Beast and Jesus), it announces an ange of blood and violence
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view of history
described in his work "A Vision", history is formed by a series of cycles, each the opposite of the previous one, they have a circular development that rotates and climbs forward, at the end of each cycle the cone reaches its maximum width, collapses on itself and originates a new opposite gyre