https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/harrydole/activity/ Activity feed for Harrison Dole. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 f995b8b175416cf73a4b2e81b049cf6c http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=308 Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:38:57 -0500 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 […]

]]> 93c9c6fb3af27e58da3793ff52a8e124 http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/the-troubles-with-heaneys-subtle-neutrality/ Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:06:24 -0500 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]

]]> 31b31f1d0c17ff2bc75b9fac9f93a9cd http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/yeats-fleeting-confidence/ Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:11:20 -0500 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]

]]> 659ee0d053aeb6324b196bc3e3d61866 http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/yeats-transition-from-paradox-to-paradox/ Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:48:54 -0500 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]

]]> 802470d1546e2b289a523775fcd1a33d http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/05/yeats-is-a-smash-hit-never-give-all-the-heart-in-song/ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:17:50 -0500 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 […]

]]> f6c294a9913e5faca964a5c297a37cc5 http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/to-ireland-in-the-coming-times-the-windunmeasured-mind-dynamic/#post-199 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 00:37:49 -0500 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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