Yeats
Edmund Chung Ms. Hallas OAC English Period 3 2 June 2001 Writing for Free Ireland: Yeatsfs 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, gTo Ireland in the Coming Times,h gSeptember 1913h and gEaster 1916h 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 gTo Ireland in the Coming timesh and in gEaster 1916.h In the former poem, Yeats suggested the idea of Irish brotherhood to achieve justice for Ireland, gTrue brother of a company, that sang, to sweeten Irelandfs wrongh (Finneran 50).......
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