September 1913 Annotated

When Yeats moved back to London to pursue his interest in Arts, he met famous writers like Maud Gonne. The Poem “To Ireland in the Coming Times” is one of the poems Yeats wrote in 1892 and was published in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends. “Know, that I would accounted

By simply reading the title of the poem, one realizes that Yeats is giving out a warning to never love wholeheartedly. In the opening lines of the poem, “Never give all the heart, for love / Will hardly seem worth thinking of”, the speaker continues his warning.

We can be more specific and see what the poet and writer exactly talk about. It is better to focus on the poem first as it was written before the novel. In his poem William butler Yeats is shocked by the events which were happening during the First World War. “Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned…”, he tries to picture the dark ages of the war and the nasty events which were happening by using some metaphors and similes such as “a shape with lion body and the head of man” or “shadows of the indignant desert birds” Therefore, he manage to transmit the terrifying atmosphere of his time to the reader. He can not stand this state of fairs so he thinks that it is the end and he hopes that it is time for the second coming of Christ.

Paris 1919 the six months that changed the world, is a novel written by Margaret McMillan that gives the reader an insight into the post war peace conferences that took place in Paris, France. The book is written so that McMillian is giving the reader the details and the reader must follow along with her. McMillan makes it a habit to often pull from sources and provide direct quotes that were spoken during the conference. The book’s main subject is of the peace conferences but it also tells of events that occurred before and after the war. Mcmillan is not stranger to writing as she has written many other historical novels and is highly decorated with awards presented to her for her writings. She serves as a historian as well a professor at

William Butler Yeats is one of the most esteemed poets in 20th century literature and is well known for his Irish poetry. While Yeats was born in Ireland, he spent most of his adolescent years in London with his family. It wasn’t until he was a teenager that he later moved back to Ireland. He attended the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and joined the Theosophical Society soon after moving back. He was surrounded by Irish influences most of his life, but it was his commitment to those influences and his heritage that truly affected his poetry. William Butler Yeats’s poetry exemplifies how an author’s Irish identity can help create and influence his work.

Between having won a financially lucrative lawsuit against the owners of the Mineral Springs Hotel and Bathhouse, plus getting paid for still working there, and now collecting a monthly pension, Charles is able to purchase a lot and a half for $150 ($4,000 in 2017). He is undeniably enthusiastic as he hires men to build the first house that he and Elizabeth have ever owned. And what a location. Near the end of a dead-end street, it is only a one block walk to church and a three block walk to work. As August of 1907 arrives, the Okawville newspaper announces that “Charles Lorne’s new residence was nearing completion.” In September he and his family move into his new residence at 804-06 North Nashville

The conflict that took place between the end of the Civil War, which was 1865, to the beginning of World War I in 1914 had a primarily negative impact on the United States of America.

Yeats often took pride in his Irish roots unlike many, and let those same roots drive his life as much as he let them drive the content of his works from his remarkable poetic compositions to his breath taking stage productions. “The poetry of W.B. Yeats has to be reckoned with as a force which was both influenced by and deeply influenced the crystallization of the Irish ethnicity and identity” (“W.B. Yeats Poetry: Crystallizing..”). As much influence his identity played on his poetry his poetic expression of if affected the crystallization of the identity itself. Over the course of his works and of his life Yeats very much had his own impact on what the Irish identity was in itself. Extraordinarily dropping the preconceived notions of what it meant to be Irish , to speak Gallic, to be catholic, or protestant, Yeats surpassed the ideal and lived the reality accepting all that came along with being Irish: the good, the bad, and the ugly of its religion, its truth, and its history. Yeats led all this by example through his work for Ireland and its cause of independence in his life and through his written works beyond his death. “Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period, which sought to

Through the use of vigorous, ritualistic imagery and war-like diction, Yeats accentuates the inauspicious course of events the world has faced. Yeats, in the first stanza, uses violent and warlike imagery and diction to illustrates that the world is on the threshold of an apocalyptic revelation. Yeats describes that the world is going to “fall apart,” and that “mere anarchy is [loosened] upon the world,” and ‘everywhere...innocence is drowned.” The use of violent diction in the first stanza contributes to the concept that world is going to end, and that humanity cannot recover from the destruction the world has caused, but Yeats uses ritualistic imagery to describe “a rough beast” with “a shape [of a] lion body and head of a man” to show that this “New Age” will bring some hope. William Yeats uses this violent and ritualistic imagery and diction to illustrate that in order to bring a new era, the old epoch must die violently, which is his concept of “the second coming.” Yeats believes that a violent revolution will bring hope to a new era. Similarly, how the Russian Revolution was destructive and brought an end to an era and started a new age which bought Russia to new heights, Yeats believes that a violent end of the world can bring the new world to new

The Industrial Economy, by 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world’s industrial ouput. By 1880, the Census Bureau demostrated for the first time that a majority of the worplace enganged in non farming jobs. The growth of cities was vital for financing industrialization; about eleven million Americans moved from farm to city and others by overseas (1870-1920). Moreover, the railroad made possible for the Second Industrail Revolution. Railrods adopted a standard national gauge, for the first time for trains of one company to travel on any other company’s track. The growing population formed a broaden expanding market for the mass production, distribution, and marketing goods. Also, while the economy suffered prolonged downturns,

Yeats use multiple biblical allusions to illustrate his dread of the future. Yeats uses multiple biblical allusions to illustrate the reappearance of Christ. Lines 4-6 contains two allusions the first one is when he uses the word “anarchy” calls to mind the reign of Satan on earth before Christ comes back, but it also brings to mind the biblical floods. Yeats also spans the entire length of the bible in the lines, from genesis the flood to revelation.

Yeats is describing his dystopia as a society in which

The fact that Yeats refers to history as a gyre shows that he has a negative view of humanity. The speaker also mentions how the falcon does not hear the falconer, which also illustrates how the world is crumbling. The next two lines say “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” This solidifies the idea that the world is crumbling, and even though the anarchy, or chaos, is small, there is definitely more to come. The speaker then goes on to say that “the blood-dimmed tide is loosed,” which is a biblical allusion that represents God’s vengeance for disobedience, and that “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

And yet, this truth leaves us not alone, but struggling through our existence with all people. “We must love one another or die” is his most conclusive statement (Auden 2690). This shows his belief that even in the meaningless dark of war, we still have each other to love, and we must do so in order to live. Interestingly, Auden later changed the line to “We must love one another and die” and even later removed it from the poem entirely (Auden 2690). This shows how greatly Auden was disillusioned with life. In his mind, even if one lived a life of love, they still died, just the same as the senseless deaths of all the soldiers and civilians killed in World War Two. Although Auden found beauty in community, he also saw it as fleeting, almost meaningless, but still worth clinging to, so that he might “show an affirming flame” to the people lost in the darkness (Auden

The fifth stanza describes the quality that Yeats came to see as at the very heart of civilized life: courtesy. By courtesy he understands a means of being in the world that would protect the best of human dignity, art and emotion. And in his prayer for his daughter he wishes that she will learn to survive with grace and dignity in a world turned horrific. He explains that many men have hopelessly loved beautiful women, and they thought that the women loved them as well but they did not.