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Mind Map by jordanna.woodward, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jordanna.woodward
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Easter 1916
- ‘Easter 1916′ is about the Easter Rising in
Ireland, in 1916.
- point of
view of
flaneur
- I have met them at the close of
day” This makes the poem more
personal and suggests that this is
a personal experience
- "with a mocking gibe” This
suggests that people did not
admire them yet as they were
just ordinary people, who went
to work and not what people
associate with ‘heroes’.
- "where motley is worn”
This suggests that
Yeats has little respect
for them
- ” A terrible beauty is born” This
suggests that the cause is ‘terrible’ as
it will cause mass bloodshed and
hatred and yet ‘beautiful’ as it could
unite Ireland to strive for
independence.
- second stanza is an elegy
to the fallen revoultionaries
of the rising. “What women”
this refers to Constance
Markiewicz
- Sentenced
to death>
got away
with it
- Sentenced
to death>
got away
with it
- Patrick Henry Pearse, who was
a supreme leader of the IRB. He
helped plan the Easter Rising but
surrendered to the British on April
29 1916. He was then executed
by firing squad. Pearse was also
a poet, teacher and a writer. The
“winged horse” Yeats mentions,
is Pegasus, the horse of the
Muses, which Yeats thought
would suit him well as he was a
writer.
- “his helper and friend”. This
refers to Thomas MacDonagh
- MacBride did die for the cause, even though he
hates him he mentions that “he too resigned his
part”.
- stone” of the stone
of destiny,
suggesting that the
revolutionaries were
in fact, enchanted by
the stone of destiny
to disturb Ireland
- in the next stanza, the
meaning of the stone
shifts, now meaning
something hard
- replacing
Constance
Markiewicz
with James
Connolly
- “green is worn”
- revolutionaries will
live on, with
themselves now
being “the terrible
beauty born”.
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