Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Yates' Poetry
- Tone and mood
- Contemplative
- ASC
- SC
- WSC
- Evocative
- ASC
- M+E
- TF
- Sinister
- M+E
- SC - violent and shocking
- L+S
- Dismal/Despairing
- M+E
- BD
- SC
- TCH
- TF
- Happy in an unreflective way
- ASC
- M+E
- STB
- Change
- BD
- ASC
- WSC
- Sorrowful
- M+E
- E-1916
- IM
- Dissatisfaction
- E-1916
- TSC
- WSC
- TCH
- Uncertainty
- L+S
- SC
- IA
- Unease
- L+S
- Melancholic
- C+M
- IA
- Aural effects
- Alliteration
- 'sleep, shriek, struggle'
ASC
- 'O Presences/ That passion, piety or affection knows' ASC
- 'casual comedy' - harsh 'c' sound, contrast to
comedic element - E-1916
- 'indignant desert birds, darkness drops
again' - harsh 'd' alliteration - SC
- 'The light of evening, Lissadell' -
beauty and dreamy - IM
- 'wander where they will' and 'cold/ Companionable streams
or climb the air' - sonic bursts that reflect the energy - WSC
- 'fish, flesh, or fowl' STB
- 'creeping cat' - onomatopoeic - C+M
- 'cheering crowds' - echoes crowd - IA
- Sibilance
- 'comfortable kind of old scarecrow' ASC
- 'shout a secret to the stone' M+E
- 'sole sake' - reflects ethereal
dream-like quality - BD
- 'A terrible beauty is born' - 'b' sound emphasises oxymoron
and contrast - 'terrible' (deaths) and 'beauty' (martyrs) - E-1916
- 'there lies a leafy island' - somnambulistic, lulling 'l' sound -
TSC
- 'world's more full of weeping' - soft 'w' sounds -
TSC
- 'somewhere in sands of the desert a shape' SC
- 'centuries of stony sleep' SC
- 'wander and wail as he would' - melodic,
soft sounds - onomatopoeic - C+M
- Assonance
- 'all heart's ache' BD
- 'O sages standing in God's holy fire/ As in the gold mosaic of a
wall' - weaving 'o' sounds into stanza - resonates when spoken
and draws us further into this spiritual revelation - STB
- 'delighting' 'ice' 'wild' 'light'
'skies' - harsh 'i' sounds - TCH
- Rhyme
- 'I lie awake night and night/ And never get the answers
right'-cyclical,trapped rhyme - M+E
- 'frothy bubbles' and 'troubles' - contrast or
link?
- 'delicate feet' - internal rhyme, melodic - C+M
- Harsh Consonants
- 'the worst are full of passionate intensity' - SC
- 'they dreamed and are dead' E-1916
- 'folly of a fight' - harsh 'f'
creates fight imagery - IM
- 'brute blood' - harsh,
penetrative - L+S
- 'the clever man who cries/ The catch cries of the
clown' - harsh 'c' sounds sound angry/bitter - TF
- Anaphora
- TF
- Rhyme
- ABABABCC
- AMS
- STB
- Rhyming couplets
- M+E
- WSC
- Irregular rhyme scheme
- BD -- stream of
consciousness
- STB - twisted Ottava Rima scheme, reinforces untraditional idea
- ABAB
- E-1916
- IA
- No rhyme sceme
- SC - sense of falling apart, not structure
- ABBACDDC
- IM
- Cross-rhyme
- C+M - builds dance rhythm
- Rhythm
- Iambic Pentameter
- AMS
- SC
- WSC line 5
- STB
- Irregular rhythm
- BD
- SC - free verse, sense of falling apart?
- Iambic tetrameter
- E-1916
- Variations in consistent form allow him
to emphasise particular elements
- WSC lines 1 and 3
- IA - balanced rhythm
- Iambic trimeter
- E-1916
- WSC lines 2,4,6
- C+M
- Refrain
- E-1916
- TSC
- Monosyllables
- IM - rhythm slows and
causes reader to pause
- 'the great wings beating
still' - mimics beating of
wings - L+S
- Caesura
- broken up - sense of shock + unease - L+S
- 'vanished, and left but memories' - TCH
- 'this death' - emphasis - IA
- Meter
- IM - reflects irregularity and pulsations of rape - stresses
do not always comply with natural word stresses 'How
can those terrified vague fingers push'
- C+M - impression that cat is moving or dancing
- 'do you dance Minnaloushe, do you dance?' - anapaestic metre - C+M
- Anapaestic
- 'they have flown away' - pondering thoughts? - WSC
- Form
- Ottava Rima
- AMS
- STB
- Less lines in last stanza,
cutting off thoughts
- M+E
- TF
- Movement of tenses
- BD
- Varying lengths of stanzas
- BD
- 16,24,16,24 - Easter uprising was
24/4/16 - E-1916
- SC
- IA - tight structure echoes
certainty that he will die
- Ballad
- TSC - adds to songlike
(childlike) quality
- WSC - similar traits: strong emotion
released in pitiful confession
- (similar to) IA - dramatic monologue
- Petrachen Sonnet
- IM - mirrors this structure but is longer
- L+S
- Ending with a question
- L+S
- SC
- TCH
- WSC
- ASC
- Enjambement
- WSC - flows like water
- TCH - like a stream of
consciousness
- Alexandrines
- (some of) TCH - (some in free verse)
- Romantic style
- L+S - ironic contrast
- TF