William Butler Yeats was one of the most prominent writers of the twentieth-century. Among his most famous poems on variety of subjects “Easter 1916” was one of the significant symbolic poems dedicated to the Irish freedom fighters. As Brich claims that, “Yeats served as a senator of the Irish Free State (2009)” so his writing had great impact in creating independent Irish society through his symbolic poem “Easter 1916”. Yeats saw poetic symbols as having power through both “pre-ordained energies” and “long association” (Yeats 1921), so Yeats in his “Easter 1916” strongly favors symbols whose power stems from long association. He employs symbols from established works of Irish leaders, and from deep-rooted symbols. These allow him to examine
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Yeats refers to a certain type of beauty such as people’s clothing as "terrible". He describes this phrase when he introduced “where motley is worn (Yeats, 1921).” Basically, he's playing on our usual associations with clown clothing to make us think of his empathy towards Irish people. Yeats says that he always assumed these people lived in a world where “you went to work, joked around at the bar, and called it a day (Yeats, 1921)”. But now, something that has happened that has made "All changed, changed utterly (Yeats, 1921)". This shows that the things were no longer normal and the whole mood of Ireland changed. Moreover Yeats have stated in Long, William J’s book of “English Literature” that, “the purpose was always to write out of the heart of the Irish common people (2013).” Thus Yeats in his “Easter 1916” made an attribution to those brave leaders particularly MacBride, Pearse, Connolly and MacDonagh who were the chief forms behind the Easter Uprising but British executed them. Though their death was terrible but their sacrifice was measured with beauty and always remembered. Thus their long associated powers that evoked indescribable and yet precise emotions. Such symbolism as “terrible beauty” therefore is associated with long association as Yeats feels his admiration and detachment for the people who fought in the …show more content…
Such symbols are the evidence of the liberation of Ireland from the rule of the English. Thus, Yeats in his Easter 1916 through “his heroic character of his country (Brish, 2009)” portrayed Ireland that “has been changed (Yeats, 1921)” and his poetic symbols strongly favors symbols whose power promotes from long association. Moreover Yeats “dramatized (Birch, 2009)” his subject and from the terrible condition he celebrates the glory of beauty and his poem Easter 1916 was represented as a monument and remembered throughout the span of time when “green is worn (Yeats, 1921).” Furthermore these people are also going to be remembered for the courageous things they did and Yeats is reminding that all of the big historical moments as meaningful or beautiful and celebrate these brave leaders people as
Yeats refers to a certain type of beauty such as people’s clothing as "terrible". He describes this phrase when he introduced “where motley is worn (Yeats, 1921).” Basically, he's playing on our usual associations with clown clothing to make us think of his empathy towards Irish people. Yeats says that he always assumed these people lived in a world where “you went to work, joked around at the bar, and called it a day (Yeats, 1921)”. But now, something that has happened that has made "All changed, changed utterly (Yeats, 1921)". This shows that the things were no longer normal and the whole mood of Ireland changed. Moreover Yeats have stated in Long, William J’s book of “English Literature” that, “the purpose was always to write out of the heart of the Irish common people (2013).” Thus Yeats in his “Easter 1916” made an attribution to those brave leaders particularly MacBride, Pearse, Connolly and MacDonagh who were the chief forms behind the Easter Uprising but British executed them. Though their death was terrible but their sacrifice was measured with beauty and always remembered. Thus their long associated powers that evoked indescribable and yet precise emotions. Such symbolism as “terrible beauty” therefore is associated with long association as Yeats feels his admiration and detachment for the people who fought in the …show more content…
Such symbols are the evidence of the liberation of Ireland from the rule of the English. Thus, Yeats in his Easter 1916 through “his heroic character of his country (Brish, 2009)” portrayed Ireland that “has been changed (Yeats, 1921)” and his poetic symbols strongly favors symbols whose power promotes from long association. Moreover Yeats “dramatized (Birch, 2009)” his subject and from the terrible condition he celebrates the glory of beauty and his poem Easter 1916 was represented as a monument and remembered throughout the span of time when “green is worn (Yeats, 1921).” Furthermore these people are also going to be remembered for the courageous things they did and Yeats is reminding that all of the big historical moments as meaningful or beautiful and celebrate these brave leaders people as