The Rising

William Butler Yeats use of pastoral poetry in his poems Lake Isle of Innisfree and Easter 1916 his use of this type descriptive language evokes the reader to imagine a rural Irish life rich in folklore and fairytales. Yeats’ also urges his reader to envision life in the picturesque world, he used this style of writing to bring about a feeling of nationalism but with the preservation of Irish history. In the poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, Yeats uses pastoral imagery to describe the Western…

The Rising Cost of College Education Going to college is something that over the years has become more popular than in the past. With the number of students increasing the cost of college is also increasing. The cost of going to a university has been has become almost impossible for some. With prices of tuition steadily increasing, it makes it hard for some students to be able to afford going to a university. There are scholarships that pay for school or at least help to make this more…

Collins, Benny, Angel, Joanne, and Maureen. This play 's setting takes place in New York. The main plot of the story in the play primarily revolves around these friends struggling to pay rent, but also showing a love story between two people. The rising action starts when Roger is first introduced to Mimi and continues to see her. The conflict of this is that Mimi is a drug addict and just wants drugs, meanwhile Roger doesn’t, and is focused on his music career. There are many…

There is more than one side to every story. When tragedy or calamity strikes, it affects people in different ways. Past events, loyalties, and moral viewpoints define how one sees a situation. Concerning the Easter 1916 uprising, Yeats seems to change his views of the people involved and explores his feelings in the poem “Easter 1916.” Yeats, at the start of the piece, seems to have a fairly low view of the rebels. He respects the nobility and bravery of what the revolutionaries did, but isn’t…

Traveling to New Worlds and Becoming a New You Kellie Elmore, a famous author, once stated, “Sometimes the only way to find yourself, is to get completely lost.” Cara Weaver’s quest throughout the novel Rising Calm, by Haley Fisher, is exactly what she needs to find herself and realize who she is meant to be. To succeed in her prophecy, Cara must be daunting and wise. She has to overcome obstacles and protect the ones she loves the most all while trying to save a world no one knows exists.…

Chapter Fourteen Myth or a Man? To here with spell check At the Dublin airport Lane and Blair were able to spot the waving hand of Frederick at the waiting area. With him was a dapper, cagey thirty-three-yearold six foot tall, medium-size man with eyes that remained mysteriously hidden behind shades. Both of his hands were anchored on his hips‒ the man was Sean McGinty. Also with Linzyc were Hanna and Gellman. Giving the good…

are leaving their home country to live a new life in a new country. When immigrants go to the U.S. They have to start there completely from scratch. They lose all of their money clothes, and dignity. Esperanza was an immigrant in the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan was full of many challenges, as an immigrant. Her challenges were mainly Mama getting sick with valley fever, Marta was trying to get the field workers to go on strike, ans Esperanza had to go and work in the fields to help…

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…

Before one talks about the effects of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, it is important to know the reasons why the Rebellion place and what happened during the Rebellion. The Rebellion happened because of religion differences and a power struggle between distant relatives, and essentially the Rebellion was between the Catholic Stuarts and the Protestant Hanoverians. The seeds of the Rebellion began in 1688 when the Catholic, English King, James the Second was forced to flee to France due to the…

A man during the Irish revolution named Erskin Childers was shot and killed in the barracks on 24 of November 1922. His death certificate was supposed to be sent home to his wife for insurance purposes but never was, due to the army never making an official death certificate. She complained many times to the army and the army finally accepted her complaints and made a death certificate that was two days wrong. Later she asked for the stuff he had on him but the man who was with him must have…