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 fran brearton inRegeneration,or in Sassoon’s insistence on accuracy, may obscure the more evident truth from debates surroun ...

a war of friendship  always keep chronological step with its historical counterpart: often a poetic event anticipatesor succe ...

 fran brearton World War poem ‘Silent Service’: ‘let Britain’s patient power|Beproven within us for the world to see...In eve ...

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 marjorie perloff We have no gift to set a statesman right; He’shad enough of meddling who can please A young girl in the ind ...

‘easter, 1916’  imperial capital.’^7 Fromhis perch in London, Yeats could do many things to further the Irish cause, the down ...

 marjorie perloff Arthur Griffith, the leader of Sinn F ́ein.Accordingly, his initial stance was one of caution: ‘There is no ...

‘easter, 1916’  Yeats’s later ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ and ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’—responds to particular s ...

 marjorie perloff his characters as actors playing out a script largely beyond their control, actors caughtup in a street the ...

‘easter, 1916’  To please a companion Aroundthe fire at the club Being certain that they and I But lived where motley is worn ...

 marjorie perloff What voice more sweet than hers When,young and beautiful, Sherodetoharriers? This man had kept a school And ...

‘easter, 1916’  Rising, but it is Gonne whose ‘terrible beauty’ is Yeats’s concern. And here that ‘drunken,vainglorious lout’ ...

 marjorie perloff The great feat of this stanza is to introduce a concept ofchangeentirelydifferent from that commemorated in ...

‘easter, 1916’  But in the poem itself there is no such clarity. The order of nature—birds, plashinghorse, clouds, stream—wit ...

 marjorie perloff Who can tell? And there is still another question on the poet’s mind: ‘what if excess oflove|Bewildered the ...

‘easter, 1916’  The great poem cannot take sides: its endurance depends precisely on its suspension ofdisbelief, allowing for ...

 marjorie perloff deaths in France), but he dislikes the abstract, Expressionist turn in Actii,where the speeches are largely ...

‘easter, 1916’  an important representative of its genre is that it takes into account the inevitable ironiesthat even the mo ...

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