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    D. H. LAWRENCE (1885 – 1930) Hardy and Yeats belong to the upper classes; however‚ D. H. Lawrence is a working class poet and novelist. Both Hardy and D.H. Lawrence write outstanding novels and they are famous in both of the literary forms. Hardy depicts nature in terms of pessimism like William Butler Yeats and D.H. Lawrence portrays pessimism through the sexuality that stands for the blood for himself. In Freudian psychology‚ the snake symbolizes the male sexual power. However‚ in D.H. Lawrence’s

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    writer to exhibit his ideas on the paper. William Butler Yeats‚ Irish poet‚ dramatist and prose writer‚ his central theme is Ireland‚with bitter history‚ folklore‚ and contemporary public life. The poem tries to describe how the woman whose poet loves‚ will comprehend in her old age that she has missed the chance to own the true love. It presumes an old lady tired by the time and the true love that she ever had and now they had gone. By writing this poem‚ Yeats tries to moderate the lady’s beauty - he

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    an array of experiences; of memories; of raw emotions. William Butler Yeats’ poem‚ “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”‚ is a work that serves as the antecedent to the band Keane’s song‚ “A Bad Dream”. Both exuding emotions quite visceral in nature‚ Keane’s interpretation is one that procures the gut-wrenching feelings of anguish‚ disappointment‚ and regret from its audience; an air of reminiscence wafts throughout each chorus and verse. Yeats‚ rather‚ portrays the life of a man whose will to live

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    Easter 1916 Analysis by William Butler Yeats In this stanza Yeats describes the people‚ or "vivid faces"(2)‚ he sees in everyday life. They are insignificant to Yeats as individuals‚ however each of them shares a certain bond with him. They are all united in a fight for their homeland of Ireland. In lines 6 and 8‚ Yeats states that all he says to the people on the street are "polite meaningless words"(6). The fact that what he says to these people is always meaningless‚ shows how insignificant

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    William Butler Yeats poem “The Second Coming” is a referring poem to Things Fall Apart a story by Chinua Achebe Published in 1958‚ because it is showing the things that happen. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre‚ the falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world‚ The blood-dimmed tide is loosed‚ and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction‚ while the worst Are full of passionate intensity

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    Poetry Reading List

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    the Poet‚ and the Context “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” William Carlos Williams “Musee des Beaux Arts” W.H. Auden “To his Coy Mistress” Andrew Marvell The Poet as Speaker “On my First Son” Ben Jonson III. Narrative Poetry “Sir Patrick Spence” Anonymous An excerpt from the Odyssey by Homer‚ as translated by Robert Fritzgerald* “The Raven” Edgar Allan Poe IV. Lyric Poetry “He Wishes for Cloths of Heaven” William Butler Yeats “Pied Beauty” Gerard Manley Hopkins “For the Spartan Dead

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    Cathleen Ni Houlihan is a play written by William Butler Yeats. The setting of Cathleen Ni Houlihan is Killala. Killala is a small village‚ which located in Ballina‚ Ireland. It is an important place in Irish history. Before Ireland gained independence from Britain through the Irish War of Independence in the end of 1921 or in the middle of 1922(It is only approximate since the exact date could not be found)‚ three Irish Rebellions occurred in 1641‚ 1798 and 1916 respectively. Irish Rebellion 1798

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    "Leda and the Swan‚" a sonnet by William Butler Yeats‚ describes a rape. According to Perrine‚ "the first quatrain describes the fierce assault and the foreplay; the second quatrain‚ the act of intercourse; the third part of the sestet‚ the sexual climax" (147). The rape that Yeats describes is no ordinary rape: it is a rape by a god. Temporarily embodied in the majestic form of a swan‚ Zeus‚ king of the gods‚ consummated his passion for Leda‚ a mortal princess (Perrine 147). The union produced

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    The poem “Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?” by William Butler Yeats is a poem that brings insight into Yeats is life and his perception of life. In this poem‚ Yeats transmits to the reader how life can be unpredictable. This poem portrays the true reality of life‚ which is bitter and harsh. Yeats is focus in this poem is turned towards life and he uses many people close to him in this poem to demonstrate examples of how life can be a game of fate. Yeats in this poem tries to explain how nothing can

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    Easter 1916 : William Butler Yeats - Summary and Critical Analysis       Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats is a poem about an Irish immature revolutionary plan which became unsuccessful to overthrow the British reign in Ireland. About fifteen hundred people participated in this revolution to seize the government office building of Dublin on Easter morning‚ but three hundred of them were killed on the spot‚ and more than two hundred people were taken as prisoner and tortured. In Easter 1916‚ poet

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