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William Butler Yeats, 2006.
An analysis of the poetry of William Butler Yeats, one of the most acclaimed poets of the 20th century, and what influenced his writings.
3,186 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 92.95
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This paper investigates William Butler Yeats' passion along with his politics and his political changes, within the context of a select number of poems. The paper begins with a brief description of the poet and the Irish literature that characterized the period. Additionally, the paper looks at how Yeats' politics changed over time and the influence that his relationship with Maud Gonne had on his politics and his beliefs.
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Introduction
William Butler Yeats
Passion and Politics
Conclusion
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"William Butler Yeats (W.B. Yeats) was born in 1865 in Dublin, Ireland. However his family moved to London where Yeats was reared. Yeats returned to Dublin in 1881 where he studied at the Metropolitan School of Art. Historians note that Yeats as fascinated with mysticism and the supernatural; this interest greatly affected the way in which he wrote. His first writings were published in 1885 and remained active in the literary world throughout his life as a poet and dramatist. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.Yeats' married Georgie Hyde-Lee in 1917 but his first love and the inspiration for many of his poems was Maud Gonne an Irish activist. He continued writing and lived in Ireland for the rest of his life. He died in a French hotel in 1939."
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William Butler Yeats, 2004.
An analysis of three poems by William Butler Yeats: "Sailing to Byzantium", "Easter 1916" and "Wild Swans at Coole".
1,857 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper argues that any text is a source of endless speculation, argument and debate in relation to three poems by William Butler Yeats: "Sailing to Byzantium", "Easter 1916" and "Wild Swans at Coole". Each poem is analysed through two critical approaches, namely New Critical, which focuses on the specific devices used by the poet in the actual poems and Marxist, which looks at the context of the poet and poem to extract meaning.
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""Sailing to Byzantium" is not an exception to the fact that any text is a source of endless speculation, argument and debate. The debate in this poem arises over the interpretation of the golden bird that is "set upon a bough to sing". A New Critical reading of the golden bird holds that it is a symbol of the "artifice of eternity" and the ideal world of art. The golden bird defies all change and, as apart of art, comments on life and the natural world which is subject to mutability and transformation. A Marxism, however, argues that the golden bird along with the "holy city of Byzantium" represent aristocratic values, and the stability and immutability of the aristocracy is what Yeats yearns for. To a Marxist, nature symbolizes a society that changes."
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In Memory of William Butler Yeats, 2006.
This paper analyzes the three parts of the elegy of W.H. Auden's "In Memory of William Butler Yeats."
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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The paper demonstrates how the three parts of the poem reflect the elegiac, apostrophe and poetic mimicry of Yeats' verse in Auden's "In Memory of William Butler Yeats." The paper discusses that while the poem immediately shows a traditional form of reflection and commemoration of Yeats's life and his death in the modern world, it is clear that Auden sought to idealize the naturalism and mythical mastery that Yeats beheld in poetical history.
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"This study will examine the three parts of W.H. Auden's poem: "In Memory of William Butler Yeats." In the first part of the poem, Auden uses a reflective elegiac ideology to commemorate a poet that he held in high literary regard. After Auden describes the differing social perspectives of Yeats' influence on the world, the second part of the poem brings forth an apostrophe that speaks to Yeats as a brother in poetry. Finally, the third part of the poem is written in verse style of Yeats, as Auden brings to life the actual poetic talents that his hero had emulated in his lifetime. In essence, the three parts of the elegy will be examined within the context of the style that Auden has chosen to commemorate William Butler Yeats."
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William Butler Yeats, 2004.
This paper discusses themes, especially of Ireland, in the poetry of William Butler Yeats, a famous Irish poet.
1,395 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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The paper explains that the Yeats?s poems discussed are "To Ireland in the Coming Times," "Down at the Salley Gardens," "No Second Troy," "When you Are Old," "At Galway Races," "Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland," "The Falling of the Leaves", and "The Two Trees". The author explains that Yeats, born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1865, spent much of his summer vacations with relatives in the west of Ireland in County Sligo, where much of Yeats poetry, such as "At Galway Races" and ?Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland", is set. The paper relates that, as his poetry matured, so did his images of Ireland, as in a later work, "No Second Troy", which celebrates the noble beauty of Ireland, but laments the troubles the Irish people are facing under English rule.
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"Another later poem, "At Galway Races," illustrates how Yeats work was evolving, but the theme of Ireland was still the most lasting message in his works. "Sing on: somewhere at some new moon, / We'll learn that sleeping is not death, / Hearing the whole earth change its tune, / Its flesh being wild, and it again / Crying aloud as the racecourse is, / And we find hearteners among men / That ride upon horses" (Yeats). Yeats is not only celebrating horse racing, which is the national sport of Ireland, it is celebrating the endurance of Ireland during its troubles with Great Britain, and celebrating the strong backbone of the Irish, who are men "that ride upon horses." Yeats work literally breathes Ireland in every line, and there is no doubt that Yeats loved this unique land, and wanted to share that love with people the world over."
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William Butler Yeats, 2002.
An understanding of Yeats' poetry through philosophy.
3,400 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 11 sources, $ 124.95
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This paper examines William Butler Yeats' aesthetic and philosophical doctrines in the poems, "The Mask", "The Phases of the Moon" and "The Drawing of the Sidhe." The author analyzes these poems in the context of Celticism, symbolism and aesthetics, and discusses their historical backgrounds, respective contexts, content, and style.
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Yeats, "Easter Rising" and Irish Independence, 2008.
A review of the poem "Easter Rising 1916" by William Butler Yeats.
771 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper examines the poem "Easter Rising 1916" by William Butler Yeats and explains that the struggle for Irish independence is the central theme of the poem. The paper looks at how we can conclude from reading Yeats' poem that Yeats considered the efforts towards independence prior to the Easter Rising was too politicized and did not have enough social relevance. The paper points out that Yeats cites the apathy displayed by the public due to years of complacency as an issue that was not addressed effectively. The paper further points out that for Yeats, although the leaders of the rebellion may have had noble intentions, their actions lacked foresight which resulted to violence and the loss of lives including their own. The paper concludes that, for Yeats, independence can only be realized if there is a full understanding of its cost and when society is willing to practice libertarian ideas and not just talk about it.
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"Yeats counts himself among the people in society that practice the exchange of "Polite meaningless words" without having any real interests in other people in Ireland, as suggested by the line "lived where motley is worn" (Yeats line 8, 14). This view of society reflects Yeats' view that the Irish people have become used to their society and have become apathetic and uninterested with the concerns of their countrymen. He illustrates that social exchanges have become ritualized that neither affords the discussion of real issues whose sole purpose is for entertainment, to "please a companion", or to impress others (line 11)."
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Hopkins and Yeats, 2004.
An analysis of Gerard Manley Hopkins's and William Butler Yeats's treatment of a higher power in their poetry.
1,850 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper examines how the new age of scientific certainty in the 19th and 20th centuries generated feelings of doubt about Christianity and its validity. In particular, it looks at how, amid the industrialization and the progressive transformation of the world, modernist writers, such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Butler Yeats, explored their beliefs and faith in a higher power. It analyzes how Hopkins?s poem, ?God?s Grandeur,? celebrates the greatness of God and Christianity, while Yeats's ?The Second Coming? depicts the chaos of his time and questions the role of Christianity and the Christian values of the 20th century. It shows how the poems of both Hopkins and Yeats acknowledge the presence of a higher power through religious allusions, imagery, and the context in which the poems were written.
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"Understanding the meaning behind Yeats ?Second Coming? entails knowledge of the context, which illuminates the speakers? quest for a higher power. The poem is dated 1919, a year after the end of WW1, the war that came to be known as ?The Great War? (Longman, 925), and characterized by its chaos, atrocities and complete destruction. The speakers? says, ?Things fall apart; the center cannot hold? (3), referring not only to the global conflicts of his time, but also to the advance in technology that mechanized warfare and led to a frightening number of deaths (Longman, 926). In addition, advance in science not only contradicted the traditional understanding of the universe, but also contradicted religious beliefs, hence the feeling of things falling apart, a sense of loss of control and the imagery of the spiral of the center unable to hold."
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World War I Poetry, 2002.
An examination of how World War I poetry changed as the war developed through a review of William Butler Yeats' poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" and Wilfred Owens' "Anthem for a Doomed Youth".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper examines the poetry of World War One and how it changed as the war dragged on. The author notes the optimism and patriotism of the prewar years, and compares it to the poetry of the war's last days, which spoke only of disillusionment, hopelessness, betrayal, and despair. William Butler Yeats' poem, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" and Wilfred Owens' haunting "Anthem for a Doomed Youth" are emphasized, for they reflected the horror and futility of war, and spoke for the millions of young soldiers who had rejected the mindless patriotism of 1914 and had come to understand the hellish reality of inevitable death in battle.
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?Leda and the Swan?, 2005.
A look at the concepts of myth and the divine in the poem "Leda and the Swan" by William Butler Yeats.
2,004 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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"Leda and the Swan" by William Butler Yeats examines divine intervention in human affairs and the conflicts that launched classical literature. The paper explains how the sonnet describes Zeus' rape of Leda in exclamatory and rhetorically rich figures that conflate action, myth and history into one supernatural question. Yeats' sonnet melds the context of poem and question. It discusses how the essence of the poem is about what transmission is possible between the divine and human.
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"Since the Swan embodies Zeus, king of the gods, the swan-rape is a god-rape, which disconcerts the unknowing when they first encounter the poem. The Immortal assumes an earthly shaped to ravish (and impregnate the unsuspecting. Leda. Classical myths about gods assuming humane forms to intervene in earthly matters are common, as evidenced in Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and mythology of pre-Socratic and Periclean Greece. Ancient Greeks knew the consequence of the sudden human and divine violence, incorporated in primal myths, rituals, art, and religions, and even the Olympian gods manifested semi-human characteristics and emotions and took sides in human affairs. The protean nature of the gods and the bizarre affairs some of them engaged in gives modern readers pause."
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Oppression Through Literature, 2004.
An analysis of the cooperation of the oppressed, as explored in the works of James Joyce and William Butler Yeats.
4,963 words (approx. 19.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 125.95
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This paper reviews the novel, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", written by James Joyce, and the poems, "Easter 1916" and "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. The paper discusses how these writers offered interesting views regarding the cooperation of the oppressed and how this notion relates to a national and social identity of the Irish people. The paper contends that, through Joyce and Yeats, the works demonstrate how much of the struggle that the Irish endured was not so much the result of an outside force, but from the weaker forces within the country.
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"Joyce also includes the subject of art into the political equation. The teams at Clongowes derive their symbols from the historic Wars of the Roses. As Stephen is contemplating the beauty of roses, he thinks, ?But you could not have a green rose. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could? (p. 12). This is significant to the story in that it represents the depth of the oppression from which the Irish are suffering. It is subtle and at the same time a glaring symbol. While the image of the green rose represents oppression, Joyce could also be suggesting that it also represents the hope of a future independent Ireland."
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Childhood and Life, 2002.
A look at the experience of childhood as seen in the poems "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake and "Among School Children" by William Butler Yeats.
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This presents a detailed look at how two poets viewed the experience of childhood. The author of this paper takes us on a journey through "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake and "Among School Children" by William Butler Yeats to illustrate the way they perceived childhood to be.
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Yeats: The Renaissance Man, 2004.
An examination of William Butler Yeats's poetic evolution from a young idealist to a seasoned and successful poet.
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This paper analyzes Yeats's poetic career and his distinct periods, which show different aspects of his poetry and poetic voice. The different periods are classified as the young poet in the 19th century, Irish history and mythology, Irish patriotism and nationalism, mythic/metaphysical stage, and the accomplished poet.
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"The period from 1880 to 1930 in Ireland is known as the Irish Renaissance. This era is characterized by the revival of interest in Irish folktales and mythology. Irish authors, poets, and playwrights embarked on a quest to find "the real Ireland" and reintroduce the Irish to their lost heritage (Harrington x). By means of the old tales and traditions, a new generation of Irish authors created a distinctly Irish literature in English (Farmborough 69). The leaders of the Irish Renaissance sought to separate Ireland's identity from England and to reestablish Ireland's own unique culture by preserving and perpetuating the Irish language and its ancient heroic traditions."
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Yeats and Nietzsche on the Tragic Hero, 2005.
Comparison and contrast of W.B. Yeats and Friedrich Nietzsche on tragic joy and the use of the mask.
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W. B. Yeats and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche share certain attitudes about the tragic hero and tragic joy, but differ in the objectives a tragic hero or overman seeks. This paper shows that Yeats seeks a reconciliation of self and anti-self, while Nietzsche seeks drastic cultural changes for all.
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"W. B. Yeats's concept of tragic joy is embodied in a tragic hero unreconciled with his condition in the modern world who acts as a protagonist superior to circumstances and accepts the "desolation of reality" ("Meru, Poems 289) with a disdain for death and an attitude of tragic joy. His attitude is roughly similar to the "amor fati" propounded by the German existentialist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. How to they compare?"
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Yeats's Poetry, 2004.
An analysis of the issue of Irish culture in W.B. Yeats's poetry.
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This paper examines the use of magic, myth, and folklore in the poetry of W.B. Yeats, specifically in his book, "The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems". It specifically looks at how, in order to justify his views of the Irish independence movement and the value of Irish history, Yeats created his own form of elegiac verse. It explains that this verse both recreated the ancient forms of Irish epic myths based upon old folkloric tales and also created a new self-enclosed schema of mythology within the framework of the poet?s own individualistic vision.
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"In contrast to his later, more famous works, this period of Yeats largely centered on Irish mythology and themes of the past, rather upon the individualistic, internal concerns of the human self, as was commensurate with modernism and Yeats later modernist attitudes and concerns. These poems often have a mystical, slow-paced, and lyrical style and quality. Among the best-known poems of the period are ?Falling of Leaves,? ?When You Are Old,? and particularly, ?The Lake Isle of Innisfree.? The last poem is one of the few that continues to be popular in the contemporary Irish and modernist canon, perhaps because of its greater emphasis on internal, rather than external concerns. Also, the speaker of this poem is quite self-evidently ?the poet? as opposed to the assumed dramatic character of ?The Wanderings of Oisin.? ?Innisfree? makes use of a harsh beginning, ?And now I will go?? that jarringly takes the reader into the poet?s vision and world in a way that would be stressed to an even greater degree in Yeats later more symbolic and modernist works."
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Comparative Analysis of Yeats and Keats, 2006.
A comparison of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by Keats and "Sailing to Byzantium" by Yeats.
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This paper discusses the common theme of permanence that exists between the poems "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Sailing to Byzantium". According to the paper, both poets discuss the art that depicts ancient times in relation to its ability to exist in frozen time. Although man may age and know change and eventual death, the figures that the art displays will forever be young, beautiful and vibrant because the time displayed on the art is permanent. Throughout the works of Yeats and Keats this theme is displayed by the use of poetic elements. Language discursive may either depart from the main point or cover a variety of issues in the selection of literature. Keats writes of an urn that displays ancient times, and figures that cannot be altered by time.
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