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Yeats’s poem is a response to the Easter Uprising in Ireland, a rebellion that eventually led to the Irish War for Independence and the Irish Civil War. Think about how the poem commemorates, fails to celebrate, and/or eulogizes the event.
"Easter, 1916," was written by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats to commemorate the Easter Rising in 1916, in which Irish nationalists led a rebellion to win independence from British rule. The leaders of the Rising were ultimately executed, and Yeats's poem balances critique of the rebellion and its political extremism with admiration for the rebels ...
‘Easter, 1916’ is a reflection on the events surrounding the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection that began in Dublin on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. Read Poem PDF Guide
Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. The uprising was unsuccessful, and most of the Irish republican leaders involved were executed.
In “Easter, 1916,” focused so closely on an unsuccessful struggle in Ireland’s fight for independence, Yeats had timeless and universal things to say about it. The engagement with the Modernist rather than the idyllic Ireland is evident in the first stanza of the poem: I have met them at close of day. Coming with vivid faces.
This poem was written in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916. This event was a rebellion against British rule, led by Irish nationalists seeking independence. — Allegra Keys, Owl Eyes Editor
Easter, 1916. William Butler Yeats. Track 5 on Michael Robartes and the Dancer. The Easter Rising of 1916 was an small but significant armed rebellion that began in Dublin on Easter Monday of...
