English @ SUNY Geneseo | Victoria Barberich | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/vab4/activity/ Activity feed for Victoria Barberich. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 00957e68ad7f8443c62e0df48ac6805a Victoria Barberich commented on the post, Tree Lore and the Yeatsian Shadow, on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/05/01/tree-lore-and-the-yeatsian-shadow/#comment-299 Fri, 02 May 2014 03:19:15 -0500 I know that yew trees are highly poisonous, and are often associated with death and found in churchyards and cemeteries. If this was done consciously or not, it is interesting to note that Yeats references the […]

]]> 32cc14b6ab23358cc5c94738e7306a96 Victoria Barberich wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=297 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:58:59 -0500 I grew up listening to traditional Irish ballads, many of which are a rather disturbing example of romanticizing Irish martyrdom and suicidal revolutionary activities.  Examine three stanzas from my childhood […]

]]> 29150475eaf26cf6e7dc8a890778f8e0 Victoria Barberich commented on the post, Yeats' Reading of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" , on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/12/yeats-reading-of-the-lake-isle-of-innisfree/#comment-45 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:58:15 -0500 I read the tone in Yeats’ recording not as grieving, but as a type of rhythmic chant. In various occult traditions, chanting is used to lull the rational mind into a sort of trance, in which is will be more […]

]]> 4df73f9b8877423178b1ec58ff8c44a2 Victoria Barberich wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/10/yeats-maude-gonne-and-the-ideal-irish-woman/ Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:10:56 -0500 Yeats’ transitional phase is marked with his disillusionment with his muse, Maude Gonne. Yeats had previously idealized Maude, seeing her as the amazonian goddess, Cathleen ni Houlihan with “the walk of a queen”, […]

]]> 4a4116ed3d8b7f69c1da2dfe56325696 Victoria Barberich commented on the post, "The Song of Wandering Aengus" as a Critique of Cultural Nationalism, on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/04/the-song-of-wandering-aengus-as-a-critique-of-cultural-nationalism/#comment-14 Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:26:52 -0500 The hazel tree, in Celtic lore, is associated with poets. Aengus, furthermore, is the god of love, youth and poetic inspiration.
Like many of Yeats’ poems, this seems to be vaguely autobiographical. The […]

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