ENG 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: On Being, Buddah Records, War Poet
9 Apr 2018
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The time of the troubles came and came again and he responded as an atheist. He saw himself as a unifying force to unite protestants and catholics in ireland. Made substantial contributions to the debate of where ireland was to go. Estranged husband of yeats" love was executed for rising up against british rule. Love took second place to the political agenda she was intrigued by. This was, in his view, a great loss to humanity. The idea that a woman would do that was troubling to yeats. In prayer for my daughter he talks about how he wants the world to be for his daughter, and they are feminine things that women can do and men are left doing something else. Someone who believed in a lot of crazy things, including a cycle of christ"s occurring after the first was crucified. He is a great love poet, unapologetically. Poem that enshrines that view of history most dramatically.
