Judith Butler

size hips you may possess the ability “to put a spell on a man and spin him like a top!” (Homage to My Hips). It’s an honest and real poem, it may not be thought provoking, or heart wrenching, but it’s still real. “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats is about the upcoming rapture, and the second coming of Jesus Christ. Now depending on your thought and religious beliefs, this poem may or may not be a “real” poem, but it’s all how you interpret it. “Bad Morning” by Langston Hughes, the…

William Butler Yeats is a poet who is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century (“William Butler Yeats”). “William was born in Ireland, June thirteenth, 1865. He had his first works at Dublin's Metropolitan School of Art while a student there. His early achievements in his life were The Wanderings of Oisin and Countess Kathleen. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for his Literature in 1923” (“William Butler Yeats Biography”). William Butler Yeats was not like most of the…

W.B. Yeats’ Opinion of War W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. He wrote following the belief of “spiritus mundi”, the spirit of the universe and the collective unconscious or memory, which influences him to write around different mythologies, despite being a Christian. “Spiritus Mundi” leads to two of the works that reflect his opinion regarding war and conquest. Through these two works, “Leda and the Swan” and “The Second Coming,” Yeats’ opinion of war as a…

Throughout his short story “A Little Cloud,” James Joyce considers the ramifications of remaining sedentary in Dublin through his characters Little Chandler and Ignatius Gallaher. That Little Chandler and Gallaher seem so antithetical, despite their proximity and similar upbringings, invites the reader to question whether Joyce intends to insinuate that success is only possible outside of Dublin, and that ambition and Celtic nationalism are incongruous. Having left Ireland at twenty years old,…

“Icarus in Catechism Class,” a poem written by Dominador Ilio, revolves around the persona wanting to escape the catechism class that he is in. On the other hand, “Musée des Beaux Arts,” a poem written by WH Auden, shows how the “Old Masters” understand suffering as depicted in several artworks, especially Brueghel’s painting of the fall of Icarus, as seen by the persona in a mueseum. This close reading will focus on the importance of Icarus and how suffering is depicted in the poems. Making…

Seamus Heaney was a man who was born April 13, 1939 in Castledawson, a village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Heaney was most well-known for being a great poet, but Heaney was more than just a poet. Heaney was also a translator, educator, and a critic. Heaney was a school teacher in Northern Ireland while in his mid-twenties. He had taught at universities like Oxford University and Harvard University. In addition to teaching at these highly respected universities, Heaney had also spent…

Fear the Faerie Folk Children have heard the stereotypical fairy tales from their elders for generations. Within each story falls certain characters- many of whom seem to share the same archetypal role. The maiden in distress, the clever trickster, the handsome and noble royal. One of these literary tropes is the use of a supernatural spirit- and this character changes depending heavily on where the story is being told as well as its influences. For many children coming from Celtic heritage, a…

Myth and Its Revision. Myths gain a literary autonomy as they evolve through time into sovereign narratives used as socio-cultural foundational texts. Mythic sources may originate or accrue from religious, historical, political, or cultural references, but each of these sources holds: “ a double power. It [the myth] exists or appears to exist objectively, in the public sphere, and consequently confers on the writer the sort of authority unavailable to someone who writes "merely" of the private…

William Butler Yeats was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century; his works were inspiring and embraced a culture lost with the changing of times in Ireland. Yeats was born in the spring of 1865, to John Butler Yates and Susan Mary Pollexfen, during the time of the protestant ascendancy in Ireland; he was the oldest one of his three siblings. His father John, dissatisfied with his current standings, dropped out from law school to pursue a career as a painter and became a well…

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin but moved from place to place. He spent the time of his childhood in County Sligo. In 1876, he moved with his father to London to pursue his father's career in art. WB Yeats moved back to Dublin and was educated there. He spent his summer in the west of Ireland in the family's summer house at Connaught. In 1917 Yeats, bought the Thoor Ballyle near Coole Park. He restored the Thoor Ballyle and he made it into his summer home. “The world is full of magic…