Hey everyone! I have an essay to write about Yeats. His later poetry, specifically, mostly from "The Tower", including The Tower, Meditations in Times of Civil War, Easter 1916, Leda and the Swan and so on... I've got a complete mental block about what to write about though! I did a short presentation on the synecdoche in Leda and the Swan, but I don't think it's essay material really!
Any discussion at all is welcomed, if anyone thinks they can help? I'm really stressing out here!
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QUOTE(lucky045 @ Oct 23 2009, 08:02 PM) 
Hey everyone! I have an essay to write about Yeats. His later poetry, specifically, mostly from "The Tower", including The Tower, Meditations in Times of Civil War, Easter 1916, Leda and the Swan and so on... I've got a complete mental block about what to write about though! I did a short presentation on the synecdoche in Leda and the Swan, but I don't think it's essay material really!
Any discussion at all is welcomed, if anyone thinks they can help? I'm really stressing out here!
Love some poems - The Stare's Nest by my Window, for instance - but can't help you. Why not read a little ABOUT Yeats - even on Wikipedia, if you can find nothing else - and see if it gives you some ideas?
Eater .. and Meditations ... fit nicely alongside Stare's nest ...
Yeat's sympathy with paganism/daft occultism always seemed interesting to me, and creeps into some poems (and more of his plays)
As much as I like Yeats, I've never studied him in depth, so I'm unable to help you in that respect. Though maybe reading some other essays, perhaps not on the same subject but on Yeats in general, would give you some idea?
Good ideas guys, thanks. I've read a fair bit of criticism on Yeats, had two lectures and a seminar, and nothing jumps out at me. I really shouldn't be having this much trouble. I could do something about the dichotomy of art and nature, but it just doesn't seem that exciting!
Nickjones, all that occult stuff is extremely interesting, have you read "A Vision"? The diagrams seem completely incomprehensible to me! I'd certainly like to do something about the supernatural, and Yeats' concept of a continuum of paganism and Christianity - if I thought I could get away with only a very basic understanding of "A Vision".
I'll keep thinking.
Nickjones, all that occult stuff is extremely interesting, have you read "A Vision"? The diagrams seem completely incomprehensible to me! I'd certainly like to do something about the supernatural, and Yeats' concept of a continuum of paganism and Christianity - if I thought I could get away with only a very basic understanding of "A Vision".
I'll keep thinking.
A poem of his was included in a scene from the film Equilibrium:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/597.html
(do a search for Equilibrium to find the relevant entry)
Whether this is useful I don't know but I thought I'd post it!
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/597.html
(do a search for Equilibrium to find the relevant entry)
Whether this is useful I don't know but I thought I'd post it!
QUOTE(lucky045 @ Oct 24 2009, 12:52 PM)
Good ideas guys, thanks. I've read a fair bit of criticism on Yeats, had two lectures and a seminar, and nothing jumps out at me. I really shouldn't be having this much trouble. I could do something about the dichotomy of art and nature, but it just doesn't seem that exciting!
Nickjones, all that occult stuff is extremely interesting, have you read "A Vision"? The diagrams seem completely incomprehensible to me! I'd certainly like to do something about the supernatural, and Yeats' concept of a continuum of paganism and Christianity - if I thought I could get away with only a very basic understanding of "A Vision".
I'll keep thinking.
Look at Yeat's play 'Resurrection' fro a Dionysian/Christian link
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