September 1913 Flashcards
Yeats is mocking how they seem to know it all already and have it figured out
What need you, being come to sense
They are adding coins in a greasy till
But fumble in a greasy till and add the halfpence to the pence
They are just adding prayers up
And prayer to shivering prayer
They have sucked all there is fun to life
You have dried the marrow from the bone
People were born to pray and save money
For men were born to pray and save
Romantic Ireland is dead
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, it’s with O’Leary in the grave
The heroes of the past were different
They were of a different kind
They didnt take part in their childish play
stilled your childish play
They didnt have time to pray
little time had they to pray
Their fates were sealed (to death)
hangman’s rope was spun
Yeats is asking if it was for modern day island that they all risked/gave their lives
was it for this that all that blood was shed
Yeats mentions the heroes of the past
Fo this Edward Fitzgerald died, and Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone
Yeats recognises the their brave craziness
Al that delirium of the brave?
Yeats wants to go back in time
turn the years
The heroes would be misunderstood in present Ireland
Some woman’s yellow hair has maddened every mother’s son
