Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Yeats Context
- Irish Nationalism
- Y. grew up w/
Irish discontent at end of 20th Cen.
- Y. sympathised w/ it
- Not nec. pro-violence
- Identified w/ Irish
folklore/culture/politics/history/mythology
- Born when Ire. = UK
- Also lived in London
- Y. = Anglo-Irish
- Zeitgeist = Culture of the time
- English Zg.
- Money grabbing/materialistic
- Hated all m/c for this reason
- Irish Zg.
- Culture/history/identity
- Admired Irish aristocracy and
peasantry
- Y. thought
- Y. = Protestant
- Nationalist Figures
- John O'Leary
- Fought for Irish Indep.
- Books on Irish Hist.
- Maud Gonne
- Yeats unrequited love for her
- Close relationship
- Proposed 4x unsuccessfully
- Proposed 2x to her daughter unsuccessfully
- Poet in period late romantic-early modernist
- Spiritual dimension/feeling/art/passion/imagination
- Occult Society
- Knowledge in magic