William Butler Yeats

To Yeats, his ideas of the Irish politics of his magazine were never far from his modernist rimes. He makes the political world seem a send out of making love and contradictions, like art, requiring of us not to understand history in virtuous terms, such as good and knotty but, rather, in seemingly emotionally delicious terms, like pity or terror. For example, in the poem, Easter 1916, Yeats fixes on the horror and trance of the considerably devastating event of the Irish uprising.In the first stanza, the line creation certain that they and I/ But lived were painted is worn, signifies and emphasizes Yeats strong idea of Irish-ness. It is as if these men and women that he speaks of, such as Pearse and MacBride, get by essentially nothing with him, nothing with each other really, except for their Irishness the motley that they wore and their passion for Irish Independence their hearts with peerless purpose alone.He recognizes and glorifies their piece in the song, their part in the fight and this brings in a technique in which Yeats quite often used which was that of comprehend classical allusions within his poetry. For example, the line, This man had unplowed a school/and rode our winged horse cavalry invites the image of Pearse, the man, riding Pegasus, a mythologic beast or, it transforms Pearse into an ancient Irish hero, Cuchulain. By using classical allusion, Yeats is effectively boost his characters into an more or less intangible and iconic state.They ar more than human and thus glorified, which is then ultimately sculpting Irish politics into an more or less mythical state. In addition, the paradoxical line, a serious beauty is born, returns in the poem like an impersonal chorus, suggesting an almost strangely impersonal event. The line, All changed, changed utterly/ a terrible beauty is born is a lyrically artistic buildup of stress that becomes almost chime- like in the poem, calling and announcing the feeler of the birth of a new and terrible age.