Analysis Of The Poem Easter - 976 Words

On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army occupied Dublin’s General Post Office, and from its steps, Patrick Pearse read a proclamation of the Irish Republic. The British military responded with force, and the Easter Rising, as it became known, came to an end with the rebels’ surrender on April 29. In England at the time, W. B. Yeats learned about the Rising mostly through newspapers and through letters from his friend and patroness, Lady Gregory. As the British forces imposed martial law and, in early May, executed fifteen of the Rising’s leaders, some of whom Yeats knew personally, the events in Ireland moved Yeats to begin writing the poem which became â€Å"Easter, 1916.† On May 11, Yeats wrote to Lady Gregory that he had received a letter from his long-time muse Maud Gonne, who had written from France with the belief that the revolutionaries had â€Å"raised the Irish cause again to a position of tragic dignity† (White 372). He went on to relate his own attempts to interpret recent events: â€Å"I am trying to write a poem on the men executed—‘terrible beauty has been born again.’† (Wade 613). The phrase â€Å"terrible beauty,† with its initial â€Å"t† and final â€Å"ty,† seems to echo Gonne’s â€Å"tragic dignity,† though the negatively charged â€Å"terrible† strains against â€Å"beauty,† making Yeats’s phrase more ambivalent than Gonne’s. Yeats may not have used the word â€Å"tragic,† but a sense of tragedy pervades â€Å"Easter, 1916.† Recalling life before theShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of The Poem Easter 2124 Words   |  9 PagesEa ster 2 A, 2016 John 20:19-31 Brother and sisters in Christ, grace to you and peace from God our Father, and our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Have any of you had a nickname that stuck with you, even if you hated the name? Even if it was unfair or unflattering? When I was a child, my family called me â€Å"Lynnie† instead of plain old Lynn. 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