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Yeats

OAC English Period 3
Writing for Free Ireland: Yeats's Poetry

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, a dramatist, and a prose writer - one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century. (Yeats 1) His early poetry and drama acquired ideas from Irish fable and arcane study. (Eiermann 1) Yeats used the themes of nationalism, freedom from oppression, social division, and unity when writing about his country. Yeats, an Irish nationalist, used the three poems, "To Ireland in the Coming Times," "September 1913" and "Easter 1916" which revealed an expression of his feelings about the War of Irish Independence through theme, mood and figurative language.

The theme of nationalism dominates in "To Ireland in the Coming times" and in "Easter 1916." In the former poem, Yeats suggested the idea of Irish brotherhood to achieve justice for Ireland, "True brother of a company, that sang, to sweeten Ireland's wrong" (Finneran 50). Although he wanted to fight for Ireland's......


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