What Does Yeats Say He Will Do When He Goes To Innisfree

When Yeats moved back to London to pursue his interest in Arts, he met famous writers like Maud Gonne. The Poem “To Ireland in the Coming Times” is one of the poems Yeats wrote in 1892 and was published in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends. “Know, that I would accounted

Throughout the poem, a number of literary devices are used. For example: “or press an ear against its hive”. Using this metaphor, Billy Collins is comparing the body of a poem to the hive of a bee. The hive of a bee appears to be something dangerous and unknown, just like a new poem, never before seen, with which one is unfamiliar. Using this metaphor, Billy Collins is

In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, a young girl named Lily struggles with growing up with only a harsh father and a housemaid while trying to find her own place in the world. At the age of four, Lily accidentally shoots her mother while trying to help her in a fight against Lily’s dad. Ever since that day, Lily has a difficult time trying to be a lady and trying to cope with her somewhat abusive father. One day, when Lily is fourteen, the housemaid Rosaleen is sent to jail for pouring dip spit on white men’s shoes but later gets assaulted by the men and is taken to the hospital where Lily goes to sneak her out. In order to help incorporate the story’s title into the story, the author has written epigraphs, that are about bees, for every chapter in the book. Chapter two’s epigraph says “ On leaving the old nest, the swarm normally flies only a few metres and settles. Scout bees look for a suitable place to start the new colony. Eventually, one location wins favor and the whole swarm takes to the air”(34). This epigraph parallels the story because of the similarities in how bees move on and look for somewhere to start their new lives and how Lily and Rosaleen try to start their new

The imagery of the bees and the pear tree are the catalyst of Janie’s coming-of-age, representing her first “springtime” and the awakening of her sexuality. The moment Janie sees the bee pollinating the blossoms on the pear tree is when she becomes aware of her sexuality. She finds herself empathizing with the blossoms; both being young and undergoing the springtime of life. Contrastingly, however, Janie has no “bees singing for her” like the blossoms do (Hurston 11). In Janie’s eyes, the relationship between the bee

As the traveling bee (Janie) once again meets spring, the sense of hope is reborn within the heart its being, carefully trying to deviate from any pear tree that calls to its attention. But seemingly enough, temptation lurks, and gets into the natural sense of the bee (Janie). Within the novel, Their Eyes were Watching God, the pear tree that caught Janie’s heart one last time with its “crushing scent” (pg. 127) was Tea Cake, the young tree that intoxicated the bee (Janie) with its utter peaceful ways. But this was no ordinary pear tree, for this being gave Janie what the others never thought to give…an equal relationship. This equivalence initiates from the first time Tea

“Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about” (pg.148)

As a young teenager, Janie becomes infatuated with the idea of an idealistic romance: “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace…So this was a marriage!” (Hurston 11). This image represents Janie’s budding sexuality; Janie wants to find the love and affection from a man, that the bees share with

For Little Bee this is a place that brought her horror but also where she was able to find the happiness within herself. When the book first started Little Bee “imagined a thousand ways to kill [herself]” (Cleave 47). These thought of suicide came after Little Bee experienced the horror that happened to her older sister.

Story: In this poem “Words” are like the axe, cutting, unforgiving, and sharp. Throughout this poem she compares Words to the axe, and the damage that they can inflict. The arrival of the Bee

My thoughts on this article of honeybee and building construction and how we humans use their ideas in daily living when it comes to building is astonishing to me. Even at the beginning of the article that a single honey comb can hold up to 4 pounds of honey! A surprising number considering the weight ratio of a single comb to the honey itself a good example of this weight ratio that the article used is the Space shuttle uses honey comb shaped winged designs. Yet it’s strong and lightweight like a Bee’s honey comb. Inside temperatures and inside hive temperatures are extremely similar. Although we humans rely on HVAC systems for our own comfort honey bees do the same with great precision. “From late winter to early autumn, the annual period of brood rearing by honey bee colonies, the temperature in the broodnest region of each colony’s hive is precisely regulated between 33ºC and 36ºC, averaging 34.5ºC and varying less than 1ºC across the day. This impressive temperature stability is accomplished through a set of mechanisms whereby colonies either heat or cool the broodnest, depending on the ambient temperature… (Seeley 1995, pg. 212)”.

The apocalypse on earth has started, the Anti-Christ a beast of half-human, a half animal is rising to earth, and the world is being pulled into the darkness of hell through the gyre. The poem “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats is about revelations. Throughout this poem, Yeats uses the language and syntax including a new form of writing and literary devices, to the point of the view of the narrator, form, and to show the context. The poem shows Yeats struggle in understanding Christianity that left him searching for all his life to find some form of a belief system. This struggle with religion was a result of Yeats father who was a religious skeptic who thought religion was through art and poetry.

The hive and the occupants were subject to a limited perspective. Only the pollen jockeys got to go outside, and even their behavior was dictated and directed by the

He has no clue of where he is, clearly this tells us about the downfall of social activities in Europe. Further, he goes on with his writing, things become a bit aggressive and full of action. Yeats states, only bad people have their way now days, the good in the world has begun to fade away and soon there will be no sign of it. Ordinarily, people would speak of Christ taking birth again and coming back to save his children, however, due to the idea that evil is given a higher post in his words, it is the anti-Christ whom the people have begun to think and wait upon. Either it may be a human form or a demonic beast. Yeats vision turns the figure from “Christ” into the “Anti- Christ.”

In this scene, Cathy recounts to Nelly about a comment Linton made referring to how he likes to spend his days: “He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day as lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about the bloom”(Bronte 217). Yet again, nature is acting as an extension of Cathy. The use of nature could have many implications. In this case, the motif could be referring to the romantic relationship between Cathy and Linton. However, since Cathy is furious with Linton when she tells this story, the bee and blooms mentioned could have another meaning. Despite the bees just simply humming over the blooms, eventually the bees will drink from the flowers. This acts as an extension of Cathy feeling drained by Linton. Since Cathy is the one telling the tale, anything she recounts is affected by how Cathy felt at the time. Like the blooms, Cathy is soon about to be drained by Linton.

This allusion stems from the Christian belief that one day the son of God will return to Earth and bring spiritual renewal and salvation. The Second Coming will mark the beginning of a new and better world. However, Yeats makes use of the Second Coming not as it is widely believed. Conversely, the irony he creates is defined from his belief that instead of Jesus marching valiantly towards Bethlehem