https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ttaillon/activity/ Activity feed for Therese Taillon. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 387d09a69b884fd4afcd91f7985fe6ca http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/commitment-in-casualty/ Sat, 26 Apr 2014 03:16:49 -0500 In class we talked about the irony of the Catholic fisherman in the poem being killed by an IRA bomb. I also think it is important to note that it is ironic that both parties are also just trying to retaliate/ cope in their own manner. They are both committed to their causes, just as the Catholics and Protestants are committed to theirs. The IRA…[Read more]

]]> bc3dac22fbafa2434336a88defbeda62 http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/lack-of-empathy/ Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:27:49 -0500 The commitment of the men from Voices from the Grave is astounding to me. It has been a struggle for me to understand the mindset of such people. Although similar to the ideas we talked about in class about Yeats’ “Easter 1916”, there is a peace of mind and ease in possessing one goal, so much in fact that it must be hard to grasp the reali…[Read more]

]]> cfbc45ac3e64ebc36e7676d937c84803 http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=185 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:59:15 -0500 In class we talked about the performative nature of the men inside the house welcoming the adolescent into the adult and masculine process of  grieving, signaled by shaking his hand and saying that they were […]

]]> 2a17868b659ece7450e1feef4cdcb270 http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/self-actualization-in-michael-robartes-and-the-dancer/#post-379 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:33:19 -0500 I think the utilization to understand “Michael Robartes and the Dancer” is an interesting one. Devon, I agree with your point that Yeats does not seem to be anti-woman or anti-feminist in this poem. Yeats, as we have discussed is class, is a very self conscious writer and deliberately creates the voice of both the man and the woman in the poem,…[Read more]

]]> 8626e7356c4563db0b90dede7f781b74 http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/05/yeats-and-the-courtly-love-tradition-parallels-the-use-of-dreams/ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:44:22 -0500 As mentioned in class Yeats’ poem “He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” is abnormally formal and ironically the last poem he wrote before becoming aware of Maud Gonne’s relationship in France. The poems harkens a […]

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