school children‚ Yeats confronts human frailty‚ reflecting on the impact and worth of his life. Frightened by the inevitability of death‚ Yeats initially chooses to wear a mask of acceptance and reconciliation‚ while internally‚ he agonizes over the most basic of questionsthe value of life itself. By comparing Maude Gonne’s current appearance to her appearance in youth‚ Yeats realizes time’s toll on the physical being. After finally understanding the mortal implications of humanity‚ Yeats searches for
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Political Unrest in Ireland There has been a continuing conflict in Ireland that has been going on for decades‚ and affects the world to this day. It is essentially a political and religious struggle between several groups. The British have played a key role in the situation since the early 1900’s‚ and even more distant into the past. Origins of the Conflict The conflict in Ireland has its roots as far back as the 1500’s. Ireland has historically been recognized as a Catholic country. However
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rights. This caused a permanent state of unease between the Irish and the British‚ which eventually lead to the Irish War of Independence. The Irish War of Independence lasted for about three years from 1919 to 1921. It all began shortly after the 1916 Easter Rising‚ when nearly 1‚300 Irish Volunteers and 219 members of the Irish Citizen Army took control of several buildings in
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people’s attentions were those going on in France‚ Belgium‚ and Germany‚ and rightly so. However‚ just a couple years after World War One began‚ the United Kingdom found itself dealing with another conflict within its own borders‚ the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. That conflict existed was no surprise‚ for political tensions had been high even before the beginning of the war‚ but the actual event itself may have been startling and generated much debate and change. Although the conflict in Europe
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Britain and Total War Reasons for delaying total war Nature of British society Britain was a parliamentary democracy with a free press and strong union movement. There was no tradition of conscription and although government controls were quickly put in place‚ Britain did not assume organisation for total war in 1914. ‘Business as usual’ Britain’s official response to the war was ‘business as usual’. This is because many in Britain believed the war would be over very quickly. It was assumed
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Global war is one of the defining features of twentieth-century experience‚ and the first global war is the subject of one of this period’s topics‚ “Representing the Great War.” Masses of dead bodies strewn upon the ground‚ plumes of poison gas drifting through the air‚ hundreds of miles of trenches infested with rats—these are but some of the indelible images that have come to be associated with World War I (1914-18). It was a war that unleashed death‚ loss‚ and suffering on an unprecedented scale
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Accelerated English 11 11 February 2013 “Sailing to Byzantium” You are only young once. William Butler Yeats made the most of his youth‚ belonging to influential groups and leading literature revival attempts. He believed that once you were older‚ you start to depart from the real world. He was a magnificent poet‚ and in one of his most famous poems‚ this was a leading theme. W. B. Yeats powerful poem “Sailing to Byzantium” is often considered one of his best works‚ examining “the conflict between
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A Prayer for My Daughter : William Butler Yeats - Summary and Critical Analysis | A Prayer for My Daughter by William Butler Yeats opens with an image of the new born child sleeping in a cradle. A storm is raging with great fury outside his residence. A great gloom is on Yeats mind and is consumed with anxiety as to how to protect his child from the tide of hard times ahead. The poet keeps walking and praying for the young child and as he does so he is in a state of reverie. He feels a kind
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this time period Yeats and Gregory wrote Cathleen Ni Houlihan‚ to send a message to the Irish people about serving one’s country. In his play Cathleen Ni Houlihan‚ Michael understands through Cathleen‚ a symbol of Ireland‚ the importance of sacrificing worldly needs in order to protect the motherland‚ and rises to become a hero. Yeats also shows that only devout devotion to one’s country leads to its prosperity. The prosperity that Yeats desires for Ireland is not monetary. Yeats believes true prosperity
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is seduced and raped by Zeus in the guise of a sawn. In his poem‚ Yeats explores the idea of a single action unfolding into violence and destruction. This could be seen as a metaphor for Yeats’s frustration with the decline of Ireland and its culture‚ echoed here by the fall of Troy. Yeats also presents the violence of the rape with an ambiguity that is both unsettling and intriguing‚ leading many critics to question whether Yeats does in fact present a violent episode‚ or whether he instead portrays
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