English @ SUNY Geneseo | Jarad Sassone-McHugh | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/jarad/activity/ Activity feed for Jarad Sassone-McHugh. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 1d08366e9975c2b0c04d5b9b319dd758 Jarad Sassone-McHugh commented on the post, Bernadette Devlin After Assassination Attempt, on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/04/21/bernadette-devlin-after-assassination-attempt/#comment-179 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:47:17 -0500 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 […]

]]> 9c8621ecee8d8ddcf33c0aaf1d4ed13a Jarad Sassone-McHugh commented on the post, William Butler Yeats & Pop Culture, on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/04/17/william-butler-yeats-pop-culture-2/#comment-178 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:03:00 -0500 Awesome

]]> 10d513bc1de058a7053a7f6e5bb095d0 Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=204 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:19:19 -0500 ThumbnailTollund Man

Grauballe Man

The bog people are preserved so well due to low temperatures, very little oxygen, and acidic water that maintains the skin and hair (“his rusted hair”), but erodes the bone, […]

]]> 4539659b81c730ea71cff83a2325bb66 Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=178 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:11:53 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0559fd2d942f198f9c0fdf38cdad5861 Jarad Sassone-McHugh commented on the post, Aestheticizing The Countrymen: Yeats as a Literary Revivalist, on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/03/05/aestheticizing-the-countrymen-yeats-as-a-literary-revivalist/#comment-107 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:46:34 -0500 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 […]

]]> aa88c11dbac0ffc38954d4fd71f109a1 Jarad Sassone-McHugh replied to the topic Yeats' Transition: From Paradox to Paradox in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/yeats-transition-from-paradox-to-paradox/#post-243 Tue, 18 Feb 2014 23:20:52 -0500 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]

]]> 270df8e3cfcf19dced9ee03c7cee10aa Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/12/yeats-reading-of-the-lake-isle-of-innisfree/ Wed, 12 Feb 2014 05:56:25 -0500 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 […]

]]> 55d9687be2f65e764242fe6889d9ba62 Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/05/performance-in-love-and-poetry-in-never-give-all-the-heart/ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 07:52:13 -0500 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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