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William Butler Yeats' 'The Wilde Swans of Coole'

between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...

'Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931' by William Butler Yeats

the Irish countryside. Thoor Ballylee was Yeats famous summer home, and Coole Park refers to the nearby estate of Yeats life-long ...

'Leda and the Swan' by W.B. Yeats

An explication of William Butler Yeats' poem 'Leda and the Swan' includes analysis of allusion, situation, character, and tone con...

Yeats’ The Second Coming

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

The Second Coming by Yeats

that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...

Influences Upon the Poetry of William Butler Yeats

sense of landscape and, in particular, his sense of certain locales as cherished landmarks ("even sacred places") is inevitably li...

'A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain' by Robert Olen Butler

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure of Butler's short story....

The Work of Josephine Butler

ran brothels (The Christian Institute, 2002). "Her speciality was procuring young girls to work in brothels. Rebecca knew all abou...

Symbolism in the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats

in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...

Advancing Age in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

Edgar Allan Poe Interpretations

In seven pages interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' short story are presented by a comparative analy...

'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats

In two pages the second coming of a cruel beast as described by William Butler Yeats in 'The Second Coming' is analyzed. There is...

Overview of Modernism in Literature

In five pages literary modernism is defined and then illustrated in such works as James Joyce's 'The Dead' from Dubliners, 'The G...

William Butler Yeats and 3 Poems on Time and Love

In five pages this report discusses how love and time are featured in the poems 'Adam's Curse,' 'O Do not Love too Long,' and 'Nev...

Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Emily Dickinson and the Connection Between Poet, Nature, Body, and Soul

In five pages this report compares and contrasts William Butler Yeats' 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' and Emily Dickinson's '#632' i...

'A Prayer for My Son' by William Butler Yeats

in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...

Contemporary Thought Reflected in William Butler Yeats' Poetry

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

Explication of 'Lake Isle of Innisfree' by W.B. Yeats

the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...

Literary Period Known as the Anti Heroic Age

and most of her poetry concerns her love and admiration and gratefulness to her husband. However, later in life she began writi...

Poetic Explication of 'Sailing to Byzantium' by W.B. Yeats

of art that lives forever and offers youth and vitality and passion. One critic indicates that, "This contrasts the sensual world...

Irish Nationalism and Michael Collins, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and Umberto Saba

Joyces brother, Stanislaus, records that in April of 1907, in a conversation with Joyce questioned, "Do you not think Ireland has...

Irish Folklore in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats

strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...

'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats and Symbolism

In five pages the symbolism of this poem and how it assists in interpretation are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

'Michael Robartes and the Dancer' by Irish Poet William Butler Yeats

poem despite the metaphysical airs assumed by Michael Robartes. In this poem, Yeats expresses the concept that can be concisely ...

Poetic Analysis of William Butler Yeats' 'Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites'

Indeed, it is these characteristics which may account for Yeats continuing appeal to readers who dont normally pay much attention ...

William Butler Yeats' Poem 'The Second Coming'

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...

William Butler Yeats' Poems 'A Coat' and 'Ego Dominus Tuus'

and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...

Interpreting 'Sailing to Byzantium' by William Butler Yeats

of life in our worldly form, of the power of the many mystical forces of our universe, and the concepts of reincarnation and life ...

Dublin According to William Butler Yeats and James Joyce

this work many critics feel that Joyce gave Dublin a feminized gender. They assert that Joyces Dublin corresponds to Claudine Herm...

Conversation Between Poets Carl Sandburg and William Butler Yeats

An imagined conversation between these very different poets is presented in a paper consisting of five pages. Eight sources are c...