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William Yeats
- Rose of the world, he likes roses and approaches with multiple intentions. Woman he loves, Innocent Ireland, Rose as England, Rosicrucianism, rose and gyre is the symbol of collapse of linguistic sign*
- He was idealist
- Fear of aging fear of death
- He was shy and timid when he was younger. After his recognition he overcame the speech problem.
- Anglo-Irish, protestant family but he was against it he believed that those were ruining the sense of values?
- not any of them protestant or puritan.
- what makes him a modernist? middle class consciousness anti victorian anti romanticism problematized self, ambiguity, interest in reincarnation, anxiety over language, collapse of symbols
- Heavily symbolic, images from so many philosophies of life
- He was influenced by the existentialists
- Nietche, freud, heidegger, Kirkegard, Jung,
- Strongest influences Hegel, Platonism and Neo-Platonism, Dialectics of Hegelianism, Gnosticism, Pantheism
- Blake, Shelley, Byron
- Pantheism of Descartes? even though he was empirical, rationalist. esoteric interests?
- Arcane symbolism, very unusual characters,
- He was an Irish nationalist
- Gnostic Hegelian* would be enough in the exam**
- Gnosticism know thyself, God is both spirit and matter. God mingle and merged with material.
(putperestlik yani heresy blasphemy)
- Platonism and Neo-Platonism,
- Platonism dual relationship with shadow world and ideal world.
- Plotinus 3AD
- Mutlak hakikate ulaĹźana kadar sĂĽrekli thesis and anti-thesis
- Experimentalism
The Second Coming
- Pessimistic view of western democracy and civilization
- Aristocratic ideals
- He wants emotions he want ideals he wants courage he against the middle class consciousness he believes that fake religionists like most modernists
- Gyre* linguistic sign,
- Everything exists with it’s opposite
- center, the one? no dualistic approach
- pessimistic tone, surely but not sure
- Second world war prophetized
- Rocking Cradle
Leda and the Swan
- Violent language (reminds Hopkin’s poetry)
- Ending the poem with a question mark,
- Broken language and enjambment before the indifferent ..
- violation of rhyme it looked as sonnet but its not traditional
- Sudden Blow = Rape of Leda
- Great wing, Feather glory, swan, white rush= Zeus
- Staggering girl = Leda after rape
- Dark webs= evil power of Zeus
- Terrified and vague body = Leda surrendered her body
- Binary oppositions = man vs woman man vs god mortal vs immortal, Leda nature vs Zeus God
- Union of matter and spirit
- Euphemism.
- Rape justification?
- Hegelian dialect would be best for interpreting*
(heresy and blasphemy )- Leda as mortal woman can actually acquire a power while giving a birth to a demi-god
- Freudian approach? Maud Gonne?
- Innocent Ireland as Swan raped by English Democracy
- Eastern Uprising
Sailing to Byzantium
- No country for old man= England
- Aging, fear of aging
- he is aged so he is not coherent with Ireland anymore so he travels to Istanbul Byzantium. Ireland is young but he is old so he leaves
- Fragile and fading body
- william blake allusions clapping hands?
- Coat metaphor to his other poem called A Coat
- gyre again
- he wants to become eternal but he feels like a dying animal
- Golden bough
- everything going to die out. gold emporer are long lasting
- he prefers artificial to natural
- Golden unchanging art
- Ozymandias poem like
- Shakespeare sonnet 18
- immortalizing the power of art
- artificial will also be demolished
- Holding onto an artifics
- He was masonic
- Golden Dawn ,
- Madame Lavatski
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Week XIII: W.B. Yeats - "The Second Coming", "Leda and the Swan" “Sailing to Byzantium”.