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Harrison Dole wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
Throughout the class’ examination of Heaney’s original poetry, we have oftentimes mentioned how connected he is to the history of Ireland in a physical context, namely the soil. Considering this fixation on the […]
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Harrison Dole started the topic The "Troubles" with Heaney's Subtle Neutrality in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
After seeing the graphic and violent context behind the political, social, and economic struggles that the people of Northern Ireland faced during the Troubles, I find it quite surprising that Heaney managed to keep himself at arm’s length from the central issue in concerns of his writing. Of course, in the early years he was not a particularly…[Read more]
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Harrison Dole started the topic Yeats' Fleeting Confidence in the forum Irish Studies 10 years ago
I find it particularly interesting to be going back in depth with Yeats’ work from The Winding Stair while also reading his later works that seem so different from one another. A common theme in poems like “Vacillation” and “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” is this confidence where Yeats grapples between the soul and the body, but ultimately relies o…[Read more]
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Harrison Dole started the topic Yeats' Transition: From Paradox to Paradox in the forum Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
I find it interesting that Yeats can consider himself so anti-politics, and how he criticizes those who concern themselves with politics, because doesn’t his criticisms of political people and their practices involve him in the very conversation that he so loathes? Perhaps I am thinking too deeply into it, especially considering how many of Ye…[Read more]
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Harrison Dole wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
I was considerably moved by Yeats’ “Never give all the Heart”, particularly the imagery regarding the speaker as he attempts to play his beloved’s heart like a musical instrument: “For they, for all smooth lips […]
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Harrison Dole replied to the topic To Ireland in the Coming Times – The Wind/Unmeasured Mind Dynamic in the forum Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
I can understand the point that to be Irish before Ireland exists is over-stepping the bounds of Yeats’ meaning in the poem. However, I wonder if instead of implying that one can be “Irish” before Ireland exists that Yeats considers this characteristic to be innate to human nature beyond the racial confines of Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, or what h…[Read more]
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Harrison Dole and Rob Doggett are now friends 10 years, 2 months ago
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Rob Doggett and Harrison Dole are now friends 10 years, 2 months ago
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Harrison Dole joined the group Irish Studies 10 years, 2 months ago
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