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In Memory of Eva
Gore-Booth and Con
Markievicz
- Context
- Yeats wrote this poem in
memoriam of Eva and Con
- They were born in the Lissadell House and into an aristocratic family
- They were born in the Lissadell House and into an aristocratic family
- They were friends from his youth and
both sisters came from a rich family.
However they both gave this up to
fight against social injustice.
- Eva Gore-Booth played a big role in the Suffragette movement
- And was also part of the Irish Women's Rights
Movement
- Eva was also a writer and took advice
from Yeats about her writing
- Eva was also a writer and took advice
from Yeats about her writing
- And was also part of the Irish Women's Rights
Movement
- Constance Markievicz, however, was an Irish Revolutionist
- She was sentenced to death after Easter 1916 but
was then pardoned. Due to the public outcry, of her
being a woman. She was then imprisoned, as punishment.
- She was sentenced to death after Easter 1916 but
was then pardoned. Due to the public outcry, of her
being a woman. She was then imprisoned, as punishment.
- Published in October 1927
- Yeats wrote this poem in
memoriam of Eva and Con
- Aging and Time
- 'The innocent and the beautiful
Have no enemy but time'
- Repetitive
- Empahsise on the beauty
they have lost to time
- Empahsise on the beauty
they have lost to time
- Repetitive
- 'When withered old and
skeleton-gaunt'
- Eva did not achieve her "utopia", her illusive dream
world where everything is equal. Her image of
perfection remains unfulfilled because of the
destructive consequences of age .
- Eva did not achieve her "utopia", her illusive dream
world where everything is equal. Her image of
perfection remains unfulfilled because of the
destructive consequences of age .
- 'Arise and bid me strike a match
And strike another til time catch;
Should the conflagration climb.'
- Striking a match - the last
straw
- Conflagration - A
big fire. An act of
defiance? as it
destroys time.
Cleanses and
cleans?
- Conflagration - A
big fire. An act of
defiance? as it
destroys time.
Cleanses and
cleans?
- Striking a match - the last
straw
- 'But a raving autumn shears Blossom
from summer's wreath'
- Time has ruined the
two women.
- "shears" is a violent act. Yeats does not see time
as a positive thing but a loss of power and very
destructive to our identities.
- Idea of physical and metaphoric
decay
- Time has ruined the
two women.
- TIME DOES NOT STAND STILL
- 'The innocent and the beautiful
Have no enemy but time'
- Beauty
- 'Two girls in silk kimonos, both
Beautiful, one a gazelle.'
- Gazelles and kimonos both have
connotations of cultural beauty
- Gazelles and kimonos both have
connotations of cultural beauty
- 'Two girls in silk kimonos, both
Beautiful, one a gazelle.'
- Structure and Form
- Irregular rhyme scheme.
Could be reflecting Yeats
emotions of discontent
- In the form of an Elergy
- Loss of physical and spiritual beauty
- Loss of physical and spiritual beauty
- At first, rhyme scheme is abca
- In the form of an Elergy
- Irregular rhyme scheme.
Could be reflecting Yeats
emotions of discontent
- Links
- EASTER 1916
- AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN
- EASTER 1916
- Human morality
- old age is an inevitable factor in humanity.
This is an aspect Yeats despises...
- old age is an inevitable factor in humanity.
This is an aspect Yeats despises...
- Politics
- 'The older is condemned to death,
Pardoned, drags out lonely years
Conspiring amongst the ignorant.'
- Reference to the event of Easter 1916
and also Constance's association with
rebels
- Reference to the event of Easter 1916
and also Constance's association with
rebels
- 'An image of such politics'
- Eva being an image of a
feminist
- Eva being an image of a
feminist
- 'All the folly of a fight
With a common wrong
or right.'
- Rhyme between fight and right shows
the idiocy and childishness of their
fighting and rebellion
- Rhyme between fight and right shows
the idiocy and childishness of their
fighting and rebellion
- 'Run till all the sages know.
We the great gazebo built,
They convicted us of guilt'
- Sages- profoundly wise man
- Gazebo- foolishness? or the
idea that Ireland is built onto
England/ is a smaller
structure by England's side.
- Gazebo- foolishness? or the
idea that Ireland is built onto
England/ is a smaller
structure by England's side.
- Sages- profoundly wise man
- 'The older is condemned to death,
Pardoned, drags out lonely years
Conspiring amongst the ignorant.'
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