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Eric Berman wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
Hey so I did a podcast and explained Yeats’s “Vacillation” and “A Dialogue and Self and Soul”. For 35 minutes. Understandable if you don’t want to watch all of it, but some of it is cool, I think.
Here’s the rough script for it, though I also had some written notes that I was looking at, so if you don’t watch it you’re going to miss out on some totally cool stuff!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2ke1hY5FU1uZFQ6DVEY0j0n0SGNA9048_7dXsMbd0E/edit?usp=sharing -
Eric Berman commented on the post, Tree Lore and the Yeatsian Shadow, on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
I like the idea of Heaney offering a magical realism counterpoint to Yeats’s mysticism – always I was thinking of Heaney as a more strictly realistic approach, concerned with the most physically real aspects of […]
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Eric Berman commented on the post, William Butler Yeats & Pop Culture, on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
Damn, lots of work put into this. I really liked the Batman exposition, and the research you did in how an original artistic inspiration can flip between something as dark as that Batman comic appears to be and […]
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Eric Berman replied to the topic Heaney, and the "Tribe's complicity" in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
I agree with you, Joe, that Heaney is attempting to absolve the Fisherman/drunk of his guilt in “Casualty”. He is creating a living and breathing man for we readers, one of the rare cases that he aestheticizes without feeling guilt as an artist for doing so. In our in-class discussion on “Casualty”, Professor Doggett advised us to look at the…[Read more]
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Eric Berman replied to the topic Yeats and Heaney: Violence in the Land in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
I particularly like this topic in context of the essay that we just read, where Heaney examines “Yeats as an Example?”. You each are touching on the dangerous idea of poets – Yeats, in particular – taking their external realities and aestheticizing them into a symbol to work with in their poetry.
As we talked about in class quite a few times,…[Read more]
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Eric Berman wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
In the poem “The Wild Swans at Coole”, Yeats is staring at and meditating on the nature of swans, which we judged in-class to symbolize a combination of eternal love and the representation of the anti-self. I […]
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Eric Berman wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 10 years, 2 months ago
In class we talked about “Adam’s Curse” within the context of poetry being a labor for Yeats that is unable to be understood by the middle class, due to its intangible and unquantifiable value to the self and to […]
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Eric Berman started the topic To Ireland in the Coming Times – The Wind/Unmeasured Mind Dynamic in the forum Irish Studies 10 years, 2 months ago
Today we focused some on this poem, contextualized also with the recent MyCourses reading on Yeats’s stance on Rhythm in poetry (in “The Symbolism of Poetry”). In this essay, Yeats asserts that rhythm is utilized by the writer to keep the readers in a sort of trance – “to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment when we are both asleep…[Read more]
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