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jake yeats

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Last updated: September 8, 2022
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First submittedSeptember 8, 2022
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Wild Swans at Coole thesis
Yeats’ poetry explores age and youth as antinomies in order to understand the complexities of life and death, thus his work has endured throughout the generations
Wild Swans at Coole themes
Time & Ageing, Uncertainty of death, Nature vs Humanity, Envy of life, Frailty of human life
WSAC 1
“Brilliant creatures” Symbolism
WSAC 2
“The nineteenth autumn has come upon me.” Personification, Contrast
WSAC 3
“October twilight” Symbolism
Second coming thesis
In ‘The Second Coming”, yeats revelas his contextual questions of his time, demonstrating how the period of upheaval creates much uncertainty about the nature of society’s future
Second coming themes
Violence, Prophency, Meaningless
SC 1
"Surely the second coming is at hand" Anaphora
SC 2
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre"
SC 3
"The falcon cannot hear the falconer" Polysyndeton + Bib Allusion
SC 4
"The ceremony of innocence is drowned" Personification + Symbolism
Easter thesis
yeats forms a complex response to the Irish Easter rising, attempting, and ultimately failing, to reconcile the dichotomy between his admiration for the cause of Irish nationalism with the futility of the martyr’s sacrifice.
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Easter themes
uncertainty in the critique of martyrdom, admiration, political view
E 1
"Polite meaningless words" Repeition
E 2
"Grey", "Meaningless", "Mocking" Dreary Descriptors
E 3
"All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born." Oxymoronic Motif
E 4
"A terrible beauty is born" Symbolic Repetition
Sailing to Byzantium thesis
Yeats laments the bleakness of old age and confronts the pressures of mortality, yearning for the contrasting immortality of art. The title foregrounds a journey to the city of Byzantium, symbolic of the elusive permanence which Yeats seeks.
Sailing to Byzantium themes
Transcience of Life, Mortality, Immortality, Man vs Nature + Eternity
S2B 1
"Palty" and "tattered" Analogy
S2B 2
"fish, flesh or fowl," and "birds in the trees" Metaphor, Fricative Alliteration
S2B 3
"come from the holy fire, perne in gyre" Symbolism + Imagery
S2B 4
“That is no country for old men. The young” Pronoun + Contrast
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