Hey dudes. Am doing Yeats for Critical study and basically the question is
"An inherent tension between past and present is revealed through recurring images in Yeats’ poetry
To what extent does your interpretation of at least two of Yeats poems set for study align with this view?"
So for people who've studied or are studying Yeats' what do you make of his belief in history which involves gyres, wheels, annunciations. It is not as simple as saying history repeats itself - Yeats was far too (mentally) insane to be that simple. In relation to the question, what do you guys make of his approach to historical events?
I'm going to do the Second Coming, Leda and the Swan and Easter 1916 because they reference annunciation's etc quite more explicitly.
Thanks.
"An inherent tension between past and present is revealed through recurring images in Yeats’ poetry
To what extent does your interpretation of at least two of Yeats poems set for study align with this view?"
So for people who've studied or are studying Yeats' what do you make of his belief in history which involves gyres, wheels, annunciations. It is not as simple as saying history repeats itself - Yeats was far too (mentally) insane to be that simple. In relation to the question, what do you guys make of his approach to historical events?
I'm going to do the Second Coming, Leda and the Swan and Easter 1916 because they reference annunciation's etc quite more explicitly.
Thanks.