Rhett Butler

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

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

The best example of such case is a crucial for the movement involvement of Lady Augusta Gregory whose works and translations enriched immensely the Irish literature. Similarly, William Butler Yeats and John Synge, both had Protestant Anglo-Irish backround. Greene and Stephens describe it in words: “one of the ironies of the Irish Literary Revival was that it was founded by people whose origins were not Celtic and whose knowledge of the

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 the morning of 14th April, a Friday in 1865. The poem by Auden was written in 1940

In THE GOLDEN CAT, Gabriel King continues the enchanting quest that began with The Wild Road--the novel the San Francisco Chronicle crowned "mythical, " and Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, deemed "absolutely magical. . ." The ancient prophecy speaks of a golden cat whose coming will heal the troubled world. But the Queen of Cats has three golden kittens--and when two are stolen away, the distraught parents turn to Tag, the brave young cat who is the protector of the magical Wild Road.

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

Apocalyptic 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