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Devon Poniatowski replied to the topic Heaney, and the "Tribe's complicity" in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
Joseph, I’m interested in what you mentioned about the “intellectual distance” that Heaney assumes in his work, especially in the bog poems where he does romanticize death and corpses. I think it is important to note that Heaney (over and over again) tries to rationalize the place of his art amongst the violence—as if the art is a meditat…[Read more]
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Devon Poniatowski started the topic Heaney & the Romanticization of Violence in the Context of Plato in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
All the thought I have given to the place of violence in the realm of art has lead me to consider Plato’s Republic, and how Plato chooses to banish the poets from his ideal society. From my understanding, he chooses this because (in his eyes) poets construct a dreamy conception of emotional toil, which encourages the reader to become less c…[Read more]
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Devon Poniatowski replied to the topic Lack of Empathy in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
Therese, I think you raise a valid point. Honestly, how can one plant bombs and then make a statement that there was no intent to kill? I am reminded of a certain mentality that men of the American revolution had when it came to the consideration of violence, and its perceived “necessity” in the realm of generating change within a firmly roo…[Read more]
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Devon Poniatowski replied to the topic Self Actualization in "Michael Robartes and the Dancer" in the forum Irish Studies 10 years ago
I think it is interesting that you have paired Maslow’s theory of self-actualization with Yeats’s Michael Robartes and the Dancer. When I first read the poems from this collection, I had a similar reaction: the poems seemed to be slighting women. I even wrote a blog post about “A Prayer for my Daughter,” in reaction to how the piece seemed to be c…[Read more]
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Devon Poniatowski replied to the topic Yeats' Transition: From Paradox to Paradox in the forum Irish Studies 10 years ago
Harry, something you said has me thinking a bit more about the stark and ironic differences between Yeats’s earlier, dreamy poems (from “The Rose,” for instance) and the futile ones we are now getting in to (from “The Tower”). You’ve mentioned that “we escape the dreamy mystical side of [Yeats’s] work” once we encounter his later poems, and that h…[Read more]
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Devon Poniatowski started the topic Solomon & the Queen of Sheba: Differences in Poetic Dialogue in the forum Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
I am approaching Yeats’s collection (Michael Robartes and the Dancer) to be evocative of deeper, anti-feministic sentiments. “Solomon and the Witch” is one such poem that seems to reinforce this idea, as its contrast between the male voice and the female voice is noticeably divergent. The reader is immediately introduced to the queen of Sheba…[Read more]
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Devon Poniatowski replied to the topic Yeats and Plato's Idea of The Good in the forum Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
The link to Platonic philosophy is really interesting! It seems to me that Yeats is looking down on the middle class that labors for security—content with the dull, artificial flame within the cave, not valorous enough to seek beyond the domain of learned protection. Yeats’s motif of the color grey also plays into this idea—modernity as a sun-l…[Read more]
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