The poetry of William Butler Yeats deals with a variety of different themes from the political and historical to the magical and mystical. Whilst his patriotic poems are a call to arms for those like him who desired a return to the age of revolutionary heroes‚ it is Yeats’ poems that deal with myth‚ magic and symbolism that reveal the deeper side of his poetic imagination. This essay will deal with the related poems Sailing to Byzantium and its sequel of sorts Byzantium. Sailing to Byzantium is
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Literature: William Butler YeatsIn the literary world‚ among the 20th century giants is William Butler Yeats. An Irish-born dramatist‚ poet and prose writer‚ Yeats is regarded as one of the towering giants of English-language writing for the century. Yeats‚ who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923‚ was one of those responsible for the famed Irish Literary Renaissance movement (Hallstrom). One of Yeats ’ greatest works is The Land of Heart ’s Desire‚ a magical fairy poetry that is
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Themes in Yeats’ poetry You can find many themes in Yeats’ poetry. Pick what suits your own study from the themes‚ comments and quotes listed below. There are 86 quotes used to illustrate themes on this page (although some of them are from poems outside the current OCR selection for AS Level). You will need only a short selection of these. 1. The theme of death or old age and what it leaves behind. Death of Patriotism‚ leaving selfishness as the norm: ‘Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone‚ It’s
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This is my longer analysis of the Kingdom of Heaven. Appreciate any feedback. [SPOILER WARNING] The Kingdom of Heaven is an anti-religion humanist epic. The moral of the story is that humanism is better than religion. KOH uses a traditional storytelling formula designed to convince people to reject a particular belief or worldview. A sympathetic hero begins the story believing in the worldview the screenwriter wants to discredit. After seeing the worldview for what it really is (according to the
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Heaven I was aboard on an airship‚ staring out in the window when I got a glimpse of you. At that mere second‚ I never knew that the word “perfect” really exists. You were there‚ sitting‚ fingers lazily stroking the spine of the book. But what captivated me the most were those hazel orbs staring intently at the leaf as if it was the most dazzling thing ever. How I wish I was that book. I was aboard on an airship‚ eyes skimming over the words neatly imprinted in the book. One would get the idea that
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William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He belonged to the Protestant‚ Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic‚ political‚ social‚ and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the seventeenth century. Most members of this minority considered themselves English people who merely happened to have been born in Ireland‚ but Yeats was staunch in affirming his Irish nationality. Although he lived in London for fourteen
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checking every article a writer begins to work on. The process of fact checking is questioned when an online hacker publication called Forbes Digital could not find any reliable information on the sources that are used in an article called‚ “Hack Heaven” by Stephen Glass. Stephen Glass then proceeds to try and invent the sources in this
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Pigs in Heaven starts on a farm somewhere in rural Kentucky where a woman named Alice Greer who is feeling lonely after her cousin Sugar moved away. Alice’s husband gives her little warmth and has a obsession with TV. The story then shifts over to Alice’s daughter Taylor and her adopted daughter Turtle. While they are driving to tour the Grand Canyon they stoop to take a picture at the Hoover Dam. Just when they are leaving Turtle sees a man (Lucky Buster) falls down into the Hoover Dam drainage
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20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Yeats’s father‚ John Butler Yeats‚ was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother‚ formerly Susan Pollexfen‚ was the daughter of a prosperous merchant in Sligo‚ in western Ireland. Through both parents Yeats claimed kinship with various Anglo-Irish Protestant families who are mentioned in his work. Normally‚ Yeats would have been expected to identify with his Protestant tradition—which represented a powerful
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his works (“A Coat”‚ “The Fool by the Roadside”‚ “Two Songs of a Fool”‚ etc.)‚ Yeats is continually portraying the actions of humans towards love as foolish. Furthermore‚ "Cap and Bells came to Yeats in a dream most likely steaming from his obsessive infatuation he had for Maud Gonne. Being an acclaimed actress‚ Yeats most likely perceived Gonne as exceeding him in status; her queen and him the jester. Like many of Yeats poems‚ “The Cap and Bells” develops a lyrical tone full of emotion and images
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