Yates' Poetry

Yates' Poetry

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

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