W.B. Yeats

Question 1

Carl Jung

Answer 1

spiritual/ collective unconscious

Question 2

Daniel Albright

Answer 2

central modernist figure - appears in Auden and in Eliot (ghost, Little Gidding)

Question 3

‘September 1913’

Answer 3

octaves, romanticism, Irishness, elevate the past
‘Romantic Ireland’ dead and gone,/It’s with O’Leary in the grave.’
‘Was it for this […] that all that blood was shed?’
‘They weighed so lightly what they gave’

Question 4

‘The Second Coming’

Answer 4

‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre/ The falcon cannot hear the flaconer/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world’
‘what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/ Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?’
Book of Revelation
Irish war - new cycle

Question 5

‘No Second Troy’

Answer 5

‘Why would I blame her that she filled my days/ With misery, or that she would of late/ Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways’
‘what could she have done, being what she is?/ Was there another Troy for her to burn?’
transhistoric beauties
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