Yeats Context

Yeats Context

Irish Nationalism
1. Y. grew up w/ Irish discontent at end of 20th Cen.
  1. Y. sympathised w/ it
    1. Not nec. pro-violence
    2. Identified w/ Irish folklore/culture/politics/history/mythology
  2. Born when Ire. = UK
    1. Also lived in London
      1. 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
    2. Y. = Protestant
2. Nationalist Figures
  1. John O'Leary
    1. Fought for Irish Indep.
    2. Books on Irish Hist.
  2. Maud Gonne
    1. Yeats unrequited love for her
      1. Close relationship
      2. Proposed 4x unsuccessfully
        Proposed 2x to her daughter unsuccessfully
Poet in period late romantic-early modernist
1. Spiritual dimension/feeling/art/passion/imagination
  1. Occult Society
    1. Knowledge in magic

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	Created by Phoebe Coburn over 10 years ago