Marion Butler

pursuing their dreams, a fraction succeeded. However, the rate of success among quitters is zero percent. In their pursuit of goals, people will travel far and surrender their precious time. In the poems, “The Song of Wandering Aengus,” by William Butler Yeats, and “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” by Robert W. Service, Yeats and Cap both journey to fulfill their goals and promises. Yeats searches aimlessly for his one true love, while Cap trudges through the snow with the corpse of his friend, who he

In the poem, both William Butler and Annie Johnson were fighting for a good life but only one of them succeeded. To begin with, “The song of Wandering Aengus” you can tell that William Butler was creative with a big imagination and also determined. William Butler had a desire of discovering where the girl of his dreams has disappeared to. Whereas in the story, “New Directions” Annie Johnson tried to find ways to support her family, took her own path because she was desperate to find a new life for

The Tower is a collection of twenty one poems published in 1928 by William Butler Yeats’s. Recognised as one of the poet’s most renowned publications, the collection secured the poets reputation as a major poet who addressed in rather dramatic terms a considerable amount of central experiences of the twentieth century. His work reflects a profound consciousness that he was living through a period of evident universal change.i Events in the poet’s personal life as well as the public realm play a crucial

In the William Butler Yeat’s poem “Leda and the Swan” he uses fourteen lines but really fifteen counting the dramatic pause to describe the violence and sexual act that happens to Leda. Zeus the Greek king of the gods, disguises himself as a swan and come out of the sky and rapes Leda. Yeats descriptions of the rape is very harsh, but in reality, it is very sexual in a valuable way. Yeats makes it seem like Leda was expecting for the act to happen with his choice of words. The poem is explaining

the darkness of hell through the gyre. This is what the poem “The Second Coming” by William Butler Keats is about. Even though “The Second Coming” is about Revolutions, to the reader Keats is left looking at the events of the world around him and trying to take in all the violent acts of war and the devastation, that leaves him struggling to understand religion. The Poem “The Second Coming” from William Butler Keats, is about Revolutions, (John 2.18). When Keats wrote “The Second Coming” the world

The apocalypse on earth has started, the Anti-Christ a beast of half-human, half animal is rising, to earth and the world is being pulled into the darkness of hell through the gyre. This poem “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats is about revelations. Yeats uses language and syntax including a new form of writing, and literary devices, to the point of view of the narrator, form, and context. That results in showing that Yeats, was struggling to understand Christianity in his life, from his

rebel against the French. He would not come right out and say this in his work but would instead suggest different points of action like in his poem A Modest Proposal. Their work did not have a great effect until later when a poet by the name William Butler Yeats, based his poem Cathleen ni Houlihan, off of their inspiration. In Rafterty’s poem County Mayo he talks about the land of plenty. This is the town where he was born and can remember how it was before the French took control. Being a poor, blind

considered separately, within their own genre. However, there are merits in comparing works of different categories–writing conventions do not change how works are experienced. Oscar Wilde’s comedic play The Importance of Being Earnest, and William Butler Yeats’s somber poem, “The Wild Swans at Coole,” evoke emotional responses in a reader, and these responses are often shaped by the work itself, culture, and individual experiences. Wilde uses absurd humor in The Importance of Being Earnest to undercut

Other arts can achieve a kind of permanent revolution by constantly changing their material media, but literature can never free itself from its traditional medium, words, which have a built in bias towards continuity. Furthermore, modernism did not affect the whole of literature: some major writers such as Hardy and Kipling were unaffected by it and another historical consideration is that most of the earliest modernist writers were not English. James, Pound and Eliot were American, Wyndham Lewis

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