The poem ‘September 1913’ and ‘Easter 1916’ written with its title marking the year and one has September and the other with Easter. Both the poems has very harsh tone, written in iambic meter with AB, AB, CD,CD verses. The surface and the hidden meaning for both these poems have been portrayed as Yeats love towards his country and to the freedom fighter ‘Irish Men’. It is said “September 1913” is directly referring to workers strike, which Yeats is directly linked to “Romantic Ireland’s Dead and gone” (Tastetowaste, 2011). With regard to ‘Easter 1916’ though it is still called as a war poem where Yeats had said “I had no idea that any public event could so deeply move me” but the poem is said to be ‘less of political poem than an elegy’ (Mlinko,
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If he was not able to marry his love, he probably thought he would wait and at the right moment marry Iseult Gonne. When Yeats starts his poem ‘What need you, being come to sense,’ sounds more like he does not need Maud Gonne anymore. No more waiting and now he has seen her daughter it would make better sense to marry her daughter for the insult Maud Gonne had poured onto him when she rejected him. The line which was repeated mostly ‘Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,’ (Yeats, 1913) portrays more like the romantic self is now dead and gone. Yet when used the term ‘romantic’ also shows that he still has feelings for Maud Gonne. Trying his best to hide but the more he puts an effort to eradicate his feelings for her. He seemed to be more anger by the fact he still can’t get over her. With the existence of Iseult Gonne as he spits over the unrequited love, accepting the fact he could never marry Maud Gonne. But he could marry her daughter and be around her, for he still loves …show more content…
As the poem is read through, it gives a feeling of Yeats describing how lonely and argumentative life Maud Gonne must have had. Finally the price is paid off with her husband dead and the line ‘A terrible beauty is born’ (Yeats, 1916) shows that he is so glad even when it is the news about death. He finds beauty in it. ‘The horse that comes from the road’ (Yeats, 1916) gives an image that he is now planning to marry Maud Gonne’s daughter. The horse on the road could signify the bride groom getting ready to marry. Yeats writes ‘too long a sacrifice’ (Yeats, 1916) showing that it took such a long time for her Maud Gonne’s husband to die. Yet he wonders if the stone on her was removed or probably the action has made her feel worst towards anyone who would approach her. He ends the poem with the line ‘Are changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born’ (Yeats, 1916) could mean that he is changed as well. His interest has shifted from a mother to her daughter. Such a terrible beauty which he plans to give birth to, but it is yet to be
If he was not able to marry his love, he probably thought he would wait and at the right moment marry Iseult Gonne. When Yeats starts his poem ‘What need you, being come to sense,’ sounds more like he does not need Maud Gonne anymore. No more waiting and now he has seen her daughter it would make better sense to marry her daughter for the insult Maud Gonne had poured onto him when she rejected him. The line which was repeated mostly ‘Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,’ (Yeats, 1913) portrays more like the romantic self is now dead and gone. Yet when used the term ‘romantic’ also shows that he still has feelings for Maud Gonne. Trying his best to hide but the more he puts an effort to eradicate his feelings for her. He seemed to be more anger by the fact he still can’t get over her. With the existence of Iseult Gonne as he spits over the unrequited love, accepting the fact he could never marry Maud Gonne. But he could marry her daughter and be around her, for he still loves …show more content…
As the poem is read through, it gives a feeling of Yeats describing how lonely and argumentative life Maud Gonne must have had. Finally the price is paid off with her husband dead and the line ‘A terrible beauty is born’ (Yeats, 1916) shows that he is so glad even when it is the news about death. He finds beauty in it. ‘The horse that comes from the road’ (Yeats, 1916) gives an image that he is now planning to marry Maud Gonne’s daughter. The horse on the road could signify the bride groom getting ready to marry. Yeats writes ‘too long a sacrifice’ (Yeats, 1916) showing that it took such a long time for her Maud Gonne’s husband to die. Yet he wonders if the stone on her was removed or probably the action has made her feel worst towards anyone who would approach her. He ends the poem with the line ‘Are changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born’ (Yeats, 1916) could mean that he is changed as well. His interest has shifted from a mother to her daughter. Such a terrible beauty which he plans to give birth to, but it is yet to be