A STAR CALLED HENRY – roddy Doyle SUMMARY PART 1 Chapter 1: Henry Smart Jr. (H.S.Jr) Mother (Melody Nash) shows H.S.jr the stars‚ a.k.a his dead Brother and sisters the most important being the first Henry Smart. Thus A STAR CALLED HENRY Story of H.S.jr’s parents meeting‚ Melody Nash and Henry Smart. H.S drunk collides into Melody. H.S prosthetic leg. M.N instantly falls in love with his ruined but strong look‚ he too falls in love with her. Marriage‚ horrible stories about giving birth‚ babies
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William Butler Yeats‚ born in Ireland on June 13‚ 1865‚ was an unquestionably remarkable poet whose desperate belief in mysticism and theosophy inspired him to produce works which would establish his dominant influence in poetry during the twentieth-century. Driven by a desire to create a unique set of symbols and metaphors applicable to poetry as well as the human experience‚ Yeats’ poetry evolved to represent his views on spirituality and Man’s existentialist dilemmas. “Sailing to Byzantium”‚ a
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song: I and Thou‚ Yeats’ The Cap and Bells differs by showing the readers a view on a romantic or obsessive love which is unlikely to be requited‚ due to the difference in social rank in their society. William Butler Yeats’ The Cap and Bells depicts the behaviour of love through an account of actions between a jester and a Queen. Through the use of many symbolic references‚ the characters reflect a lover’s actions to his loved one. His use of a jester in love shows us that Yeats is portraying the
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takes a ballad form - a traditional form‚ usually sung‚ with regular‚ short stanzas that tell a story. It has a more overtly religious content than most of Yeats’s poems. As a protestant who turned to theosophy and mysticism‚ Yeats usually stays away from Catholic themes. Yeats also usually stays away from the Irish language‚ which he uses in this poem when he writes‚ "mavrone!" which is the Irish‚ "Mo bhron‚" a cry of grief. Thus making ’religion’ and ’Irish mythology’ the main theme of the poem.
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THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE By William Butler Yeats I will arise and go now‚ and go to Innisfree‚ And a small cabin build there‚ of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there‚ a hive for the honeybee‚ And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there‚ for peace comes dropping slow‚ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a-glimmer‚ and noon a purple glow‚ And evening full of the linnet’s wings. I will
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artist and a radical like Lynd himself. It was as an essayist that Robert Lynd achieved international fame. But he also wrote politics and put the case for Irish Nationalism in Ireland a Nation which was published in 1919. In the autumn of 1916 the Irish Transport and General Workers ’ Union asked him to write the Introduction to the first published edition of James Connolly ’s Labour in
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree – William Butler Yeats Original Text: “I will arise and go now‚ and go to Innisfree‚ And a small cabin build there‚ of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there‚ a hive for the honeybee‚ And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there‚ for peace comes dropping slow‚ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a-glimmer‚ and noon a purple glow‚ And evening full of the linnet’s wings
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sonnet written by William Butler Yeats. The subject matter is taken from one of the many stories in Greek mythology. The swan is the god Zeus in disguise. He forces himself on Leda and because she had also had sex with her husband‚ the Spartan king Tyndareus‚ she becomes pregnant with four fetuses. The most important of these offspring on the development of the Western civilization is Helen of the Trojan War. A close study of "Leda and the Swan" reveals how Yeats turns the violent rape into a work
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Explore how Yeats presents control in Leda and the Swan "By the dark webs‚ her napes caught his bill" Yeats’ poem ’Leda and the Swan’ was supposedly written in 1923 during the period of Irish Civil War although it was published in 1928‚ it was a time of confusion and division in Ireland. ’Leda and the Swan’ symbolises the conflicting relationship between Ireland and Britain during the early 20th century‚ this conflict is shown through Yeats’ use of violence and godly image through the swan and
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Helen of Troy caused the end of Greek mythology; the great battle to try and win her. In this poem‚ Yeats explores the motivations behind Leda and Zeus‚ and the results of what happened. This poem is in a sonnet form; usually a love poem. It is interesting that Yeats has chosen to use this form for a poem about a rape; either to create a contrast‚ or to explore the themes of the poem in more depth. Yeats’ fascination with swans as a motif appears again here; however‚ slightly differently to ‘Wild Swans
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