Monday, April 4, 2011

The Irish uprising

Yeats,s narrator first discribes the revolutionary soldiers at first that he did not want to befriend them at first meeting. Yeats did not believe in fighting and his narrator only nodds or exchanges polite words to them, because Yeats was not on board with the revolution the narrator kept his emotional distance. At the end of the stanza it has a complete turn around, "All changed, changed utterly, A terrible beauty is born".In the second stanza he talks of a young girl he once loved but he is bashing the relationship she is in now and slamming the man she is with and expresses his anger for the life she chose and the man that abused her. He pulls no punches and devoted an entire stanza for him."He, too, has been changed in his turn, Transformed utterlly; A Terrible beauty is born" and as the result of the easter killings a terrible beauty is born. Is the first person narrator gone now? because now he is expressing what the changes are minute by minute, "Hearts with one purpose alone through summer and winter seem Enchanted to a stone". Is this a metafor of the waisted deaths and are in the stones? In stanza five The narrator seems to be back; "Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of heart". And in the end of this stanza Was it needless death after all"? The narrator is questioning why they had to die and in the last stanza he names the people in this poem... And seems to point out that what is done is done and all that seems to be important is to remember them and not to question if they overeacted and jumped on board to quickly for the revolution, and now wear your green for remembrence. A terrible beauty is born...A very complex poem not ok with a revolution, and comming to terms with it, when he sees the soldiers, loved a young girl but did not stay with her,trashes her husband for how he treated her,a narrator tells the story and he leaves and comes back and now was the killing worth it all?.... Yes, to the question. I say yes it all is sectioned in six Stanzas to describe " A terrible beauty "

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