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Vera Dokter replied to the topic Yeats and Heaney: Violence in the Land in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
You both raise some interesting points and I agree with Joseph Fennie’s point that at times, Yeats was writing some extremely risky poetry in the sense that it can indeed persuade people into believing that one must die for their nation, for their land.
However, I read the part where Heaney talks about his cousin Colum in “The Strand at Lough B…[Read more]
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Vera Dokter wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
I thought this poem was particularl interesting,because it again dealt with the issue of what the role of a poet is. Should he be actively involved in the political ordeals and the violence that Northern Ireland […]
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Vera Dokter started the topic Heaney is there to be h e a r d. in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
Today in class we talked about what exactly the responsibility of a poet is, because this struggle is apparent in a lot of Heaney’s poetry. Should he for example be a poet that addresses the nation and actively takes a stance, like Lorca, the poet he mentions in Summer 1969? In this poem we certainly get the sense that some people wanted him to b…[Read more]
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Vera Dokter wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 11 months ago
Gusty Spence seems to me to be the first person who actually got that there is no such thing as the ‘essential Ireland’ as Heaney alludes to in his poem “Stations of the West” when he says “I had come west to […]
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Vera Dokter wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 10 years ago
When talking about “In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz” today, we identified the gazebo at the end of the poem as a reference to man-made aspects of life such as Time and Death itself. This would of […]
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Vera Dokter started the topic The nest as a representation of the collective mind in the forum Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
We just talked about the representation of the nest that the daws build in “The Tower” poem. We related it to the matter of taking stock of one’s life, which is of course directly related to the first line of the third part of the poem “it is time that I wrote my will.” However, I interpreted it in a different way. I thought the twigs were a…[Read more]
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Vera Dokter started the topic Yeats and Rembrandt in the forum Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
When re-reading Yeats’ essay on Magic, the ‘vision’ that he describes in the second part, evoked by a woman, includes the following scenario: “[a] man in black was perhaps a Fleming of the sixteenth century (…) He went in, and wishing to find out how far we had one vision among us, I kept silent when I saw a dead body lying upon the table w…[Read more]
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