Quotes Flashcards
The Wild Swans at coole (ATT)
“And now my heart is sore”
He seen the passage of time and he doesn’t like it
The Wild Swans at coole (ATT)
“Trod with a lighter tread”
He’s old and he’s facing life stress so his life isn’t ‘lighter’
The Wild Swans at coole (ATT)
“Their hearts have not grown old”
Yeats think that the swans stayed the same, while Everything has changed
Easter 1916 (ATCH)
“All’s changed, changed utterly A terrible beauty is born”
Easter 1916 (ATCH)
“The stone’s in the midst of all”
The rebels are referred to the stone, they are set in their belief which makes them out of sync to the world
Easter 1916 (ATCH)
“Changes minute by minute, minute by minute they live”
the passage of time
Easter 1916 (ATCH)
“Hearts with one purpose alone”
Set in a belief, went from ordinary to heroic people
The Second Coming (T,T,T,M)
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre”
The society is going out of control
The Second Coming (T,T,T,M)
“The falcon cannot hear the falconer”
Even the falcon who always listen doesn’t listen to the owner which describe how crazy the situation is
The Second Coming (T,T,T,M)
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”
Overarching themes of inevitability of change
The Second Coming (T,T,T,M)
“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”
the world is fallen to chaos
An Irish airman Forsees his death (ITAN)
“I know I shall meet my fate, somewhere among the clouds above”
inevitability of his death and his acceptance of his fate
An Irish airman Forsees his death (ITAN)
Those that I fight I do not hate, those I guard I do not love”
the airman’s apathy, numb feeling
An Irish airman Forsees his death - (ITAN)
“A lonely impulse of delight, drove to this tumult in the clouds”
The airman enjoys the lonely pleasure of flying the plane
An Irish airman Forsees his death - (ITAN)
“No likely end could bring them loss or leave them happier than before”
Regardless of the outcome his country won’t feel any happier or miserable.
