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Alyssa Stefanese replied to the topic The "Troubles" with Heaney's Subtle Neutrality in the forum Irish Studies 10 years ago
I completely agree with what Harrison has said above. Heaney’s change in poetic subject matter caused me to draw a parallel between Heaney and Yeats. Northern Ireland in the 1970s as we have seen from the documentary was a chaotic and violent place. Heaney as a Northern Irish, catholic was inherently tied to these troubles and as a poet seemed…[Read more]
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Alyssa Stefanese started the topic Yeats' Transitional Period Style: "Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation” in the forum Irish Studies 10 years, 2 months ago
As we discussed in class during Yeats’ Transitional Period, which ranged from the years 1900 to 1914, Yeats changed his approach to poetry. His earlier work is can be seen as effeminate and symbolic, but this new approach attempted to be a more direct or masculine style. Many of the poems in this period contain a straightforward statement or o…[Read more]
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Alyssa Stefanese wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 10 years, 2 months ago
As we discussed in class today, “To the Rose upon the Rood of Time” is the first poem in Yeats’ collection entitled The Rose, a later collection of Yeats’. Originally, this poem was published along with Gregory […]
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