Analysis of a Poem When You are Old‚ by William Butler Yeats‚ represents and elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. Basically‚ Yeats is showing that as the woman gets older‚ she is alone‚ but she does not have to be lonely. She will always have her memories for companionship. "When you are old and grey and full of sleep‚ and nodding by the fire" (l.1-2) depicts the woman in her age‚ needing to nap more frequently
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Achebe chose the title of his book to illustrate the tragedy of losing a culture to the destruction of evil. William Yeats’ poem The Second Coming reveals a great deal about the evils of war‚ and the corruption of the human mind. Although the poems true meaning disguises
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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 is greater
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William Butler Yeats “When You Are Old” is a tribute to deeper love‚ an obvious interpretation of a poem that contains the word “love” five times in twelve lines. However‚ it is specifically the speaker’s personal analysis of what he imagines “love” to entail. It represents an elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. This is a very somber‚ regretful and resigned poem. It has a quiet‚ dreamlike feeling to it. And uses uncomplicated
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“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet….” Terence McKenna. This quote is the essence of the work of Achebe as it reflects the words of Yeats. Yeats‚ an Irish poet whose poem “The Second Coming” tells of the evils the world will experience with the second coming of Christ‚ is the inspiration for the Achebe’s novel‚ Things Fall Apart. However‚ instead of building upon further prediction‚ Achebe uses the literary device of allusion
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Zombie is a belligerent protest song released in September 1994 by Irish rock band‚ The Cranberries. The song itself was written by the lead singer‚ Dolores O’Riordan and became a worldwide success. Originally seen as a catchy and popular song‚ listeners came to realise the much darker meaning behind the song after the release of the controversial videoclip. Zombie was initially written in memory of two children killed as a result of a bombing conducted by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Cheshire
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(note: this was originally an oral presentation‚ and can be easily converted to essay form) Until 1914‚ all previous wars had been confined to small areas involving relatively small armies. World War I was the first ever ’total war’ - where all aspects of a country’s economic‚ social and political systems became devoted to the waging of the war effort. In July of 1914‚ Europe was at war. For the soldiers‚ the lack of education of the war’s possibilities played a huge role in their changing attitude
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concerning love. The theme of love appears with different twist and turns in his poems. A lot of Yeats lyric poem delas with love. However‚ in his early love lyrics‚ love was vague. Fleeting emotion. It was his meeting with Maud Gonne at the age of twenty three‚ that transformed yeats into a great love poet. Henceforth Maud gonne was everywhere in his poetry. She was an Irish revolutionist whom yeats proposed many time bt she always refused.Yeats love for Maud Gonne thus helped him to achieve what
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Redmond was their LEADER Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) The IRB is a Secret Revolutionary Organisation – its members are also known as Fenians They want complete independence & are willing to use violence. The IRB provide the leaders for 1916 Sinn Fein 0 Sinn Féin was founded by Arthur Griffith in 1905 1 They wanted a dual-monarchy for UK & Ireland- They would achieve this by Parliamentary Abstention- wanted Irish MP’s to
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symbolism and allusions‚ the poem covers the entire Bible‚ from Genesis to Revelations. In the first stanza‚ “mere anarchy” refers to the flood in Genesis. The last stanza refers to the anti-christ and the time of the apocalypse. In the final lines Yeats describes the sinners as “rough beasts” dragging themselves to Bethlehem for the second coming of Christ. The body of the poem describes the decay of society. It refers to the non-believers‚ or atheists and the real problem‚ the sinners. However
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