John MacBride

Although personally despising MacBride, because “he had done most bitter wrong/to some who are near my heart”, Yeats establishes that “he, too, has been changed in his turn”. Thus Yeats renders a new perspective to his original rebuke of the change brought upon Ireland through rebellion

On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army occupied Dublin’s General Post Office, and from its steps, Patrick Pearse read a proclamation of the Irish Republic. The British military responded with force, and the Easter Rising, as it became known, came to an end with the rebels’ surrender on April 29. In England at the time, W. B. Yeats learned about the Rising mostly through newspapers and through letters from his friend and patroness, Lady Gregory

with a determined honesty, sometimes resulting in an unflattering portrait of himself, adds to this appeal. The final section of the second stanza in E16 deals with Major John MacBride. Yeats despised this man. He was married to Maud Gonne, the loves of Yeats’ life. Despite the personal animosity, which Yeats’ had towards MacBride, he admires his actions and sacrifices. “He had done most bitter wrong to some who are near my heart, yet I number him in the song”. This adds a personal aspect to the poem

The Truth of Love Revealed in Adam’s Curse      “Adam’s Curse” is a poem by William Butler Yeats that was written at a time when his first true love, Maud Gonne, had married Major John MacBride.  This may have caused Yeats much pain and Yeats may have felt as cursed as Adam felt when God had punished man from the Garden of Eden.  This poem, in fact, symbolizes his pain and loss of love that he once had and is a recollection of his memories during happier times with Maud.      In the beginning

Irony of Fate in W.B.Yeats Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? The poem “Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?” by William Butler Yeats is a poem that brings insight into Yeats is life and his perception of life. In this poem, Yeats transmits to the reader how life can be unpredictable. This poem portrays the true reality of life, which is bitter and harsh. Yeats is focus in this poem is turned towards life and he uses many people close to him in this poem to demonstrate examples of how life can be a game

In THE GOLDEN CAT, Gabriel King continues the enchanting quest that began with The Wild Road--the novel the San Francisco Chronicle crowned "mythical, " and Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, deemed "absolutely magical. . ." The ancient prophecy speaks of a golden cat whose coming will heal the troubled world. But the Queen of Cats has three golden kittens--and when two are stolen away, the distraught parents turn to Tag, the brave young cat who is the protector of the magical Wild Road.

How does society form? How does society fall apart? In the short story, ‘Easter, 1916’ by William Butler Yeats, he writes about the Irish Republic that was founded in 1916 on Easter. In another short story called ‘The Perils of Indifference’ by Elie Wiesel, he writes that being indifferent can be just as bad as the person who is hurting the other. In the short story, ‘Easter, 1916’, the author writes it to explain how the Irish Republic was founded and how it was a terrible beauty born. He says

The effects of war as a theme in W.B.Yeats’s Easter 1916 and An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Easter 1916 and An Irishman Foresees His Death are poems which were written by William Butler Yeats. Easter 1916 was written to relive the Easter Rising, an event which occurred in Ireland during Easter in the year 1916 to confirm its independence and national identity from British. An Irishman Foresees His Death was written as a tribute to Major Robert Gregory who had died while fighting for his

William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming” Journal Observation In his blank verse poem “The Second Coming,” Irish poet William Butler Yeats describes the turmoil and darkness surrounding the lives of people on earth before the second coming of Christ. One way that Yeats communicates the spiritual darkness in the last generation is by using a metaphor. Yeats writes “darkness drops again…twenty centuries of stony sleep” (Yeats 1028). By describing the last generation before the coming of Christ as in

Political commentary is a staple in writing throughout history. It is an avenue for people to make their political views known to the world, and how they came to this view. There are poems like “Easter 1916,” by William Butler Yeats that go through the poet’s struggle between his non-violent ideals and whether to revere those in the cause who were killed for what they believed in. This poem ends simply mentioning those that had died in the Easter Uprising, such that their sacrifice be known, but