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Jarad Sassone-McHugh commented on the post, Bernadette Devlin After Assassination Attempt, on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 12 months ago
Definitely “chillingly detached.” It’s interesting to think about how people deal with the potential of bombings and disappearances as a common occurrence. I think “chillingly detached” is maybe the best way some […]
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Jarad Sassone-McHugh commented on the post, William Butler Yeats & Pop Culture, on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 12 months ago
Awesome
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Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 10 years ago
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Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 10 years ago
While reading “Politics” the final poem we read by Yeats, I was reminded of something Doggett said earlier in the semester: that we read Yeats for his poetry, not his politics. The speaker wonders how he can focus […]
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Jarad Sassone-McHugh commented on the post, Aestheticizing The Countrymen: Yeats as a Literary Revivalist, on the site Irish Studies 10 years ago
That’s a really interesting reading of the role of the peasantry in Irish Revivalist Literature. I particularly, like Hirsch’s idea of “otherness” as being essential to the romanticization of the Irish country […]
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Jarad Sassone-McHugh replied to the topic Yeats' Transition: From Paradox to Paradox in the forum Irish Studies 10 years, 2 months ago
I think “A Coat” and the paradoxes surrounding Yeats’ transition and general growth as a poet becomes even more complicated when juxtaposed with part VI of Upon a Dying Lady, “Her Courage.” Yeats writes in “Her Courage” “When her soul flies to the predestined dancing-place / (I have no speech but symbol, the pagan speech I made / Amid the d…[Read more]
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Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 10 years, 2 months ago
Here’s a link to a recording of Yeats reading “The Lake Isle of Inisfree”
Yeats’ own reading of this poem is really interesting in that it definitely changes how I […]
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Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 10 years, 2 months ago
So I just read Yeats’ “Never give all the Heart” and thought it was an interesting play on the Shakespearean sonnet. In this poem Yeats addresses the performative aspect of attraction, and love. The speaker is […]
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