John Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats’ poetry critiques the events of his turbulent context by expressing anxieties existing within society as well as within individuals. Composed at a time of fundamental change, post WWI and the Russian Revolution, Yeats’ modernistic poem The Second Coming highlights a chaotic and dysfunctional outlook for the future, ultimately depicting society’s uncertainties for the unknown future. On the other hand, Easter 1916 provides insight into Yeats’ own personal reality wherein he questions

William Butler Yeats’ poem “Leda and the Swan” is a dark tale originating from the Greek myth, in which Zeus takes the form of a swan to seduce the beautiful woman, Leda. Traditionally, the swan is a symbol of beauty and grace in Greek culture (“More Animal Symbolism”). Yeats uses the representation of a swan as an illusion to set the tone of the poem. Though the readers would expect the swan to be the protagonist, contrarily, the swan is revealed to be the antagonist in the poem. The speaker uses

losing someone valuable or a loved one? Losing someone powerful, who influenced and affected society can inflect people's emotions. The two poems, “In memory of W.B Yeats” by Wystan Hugh Auden and Walt Whitman's “O' Captain !My Captain!”, mourn the death of a loved on. “In memory of W.B Yeats” is written about an Irish poet named William Butler, one who died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones in a hotel room. “O'Captain! My Captain!” is about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S president, who was assassinated

terrifying, unearthly force--a preternatural vortex threatening the Wild Road, tearing at the very fabric of existence. But Tag is disastrously unprepared for the powerful darkness that threatens to consume everything in its walk. This poem by W.B Yeats explores a cat dancing in the moonlight which indicates very childlike images. The cat in the poem (Minnaloushe) allegedly belonged to Maude Gonne, who was in fact a lifelong obsession

William Butler Yeats wrote “The Second Coming” to describe the current state of society at the beginning of the 1920’s, shortly after World War I came to an end. Yeats believed that even though the war had ended, many people were too broken to recover. He believed that this was not just the end of a war, but the beginning of future violence that was looming. Yeats uses symbolism, figurative language, and structure to illustrate the complete disarray of society after World War I. Throughout the whole

The story "Philippa's Fox Hunt" by Somerville and Martin Ross was set in Ireland. This story is about Mr. Yeats describing how marriage molded his life. In this story, we see the recently married couple evolve together, and we see them do different activities and experience new environments. This story has a lot of good imagery, symbols, and themes that give you an idea of what is going on and things you can learn from, even, if this story was written over 200 years ago. In this story, there is

“The Second Coming” and Disney Pixar’s, Wall-E have similarities despite the nearly 90 years between their writing.  In the poem “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats, he describes the world through his perspective as being a terrible place where anarchy is loosed upon the world and where the world awaits some “revelation at hand”.  He describes the world as a place that only “a second coming” could save.  Just like this poem, Disney Pixar’s, Wall-E, explores the fears of today’s society, and

texts are often written from a context of oppression and despair, and reveal a hidden message to the reader that is obscured through symbolism and imagery. This is true for the poems “London” by William Blake and “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats. “London” was written during the French Revolution and “The Second Coming” was written during the aftermath of World War I. Although written about different moments in history, both poets use a dystopian society to shed light on how they perceive

true love getting away A) William Butler Yeats uses certain words and phrases. B) to get a point across. C) he wants the readers to feel what he is feeling. D) Therefore, He begins the poem with a feeling a majority of people experience in order to make people feel sad about true love getting away II) He begins the poem with a feeling a majority of people experience in order to make people feel sad about true love getting away because William Butler Yeats uses certain words and phrases.

How does society form? How does society fall apart? In the short story, ‘Easter, 1916’ by William Butler Yeats, he writes about the Irish Republic that was founded in 1916 on Easter. In another short story called ‘The Perils of Indifference’ by Elie Wiesel, he writes that being indifferent can be just as bad as the person who is hurting the other. In the short story, ‘Easter, 1916’, the author writes it to explain how the Irish Republic was founded and how it was a terrible beauty born. He says