Links to the poems
Easter 1916
Among School Children
If you would like to write a preparation for this week choose one of the following questions. Remember, your preparations are to be between 250 and 500 words and that you are concentrating heavily on how the poets language creates certain effects in the poem. If at all possible, I would prefer you type your responses.
1. For "Easter 1916:" Identify several of the different ways Yeats presents rupture and disruption in the poem. How does his presentation of rupture in the poem contribute to an understanding of the Irish Easter Uprising of 1916.
2. For "Among School Children:" First describe the stanza form. Number of lines? Number of syllables? Rhymes? Meter? Once you have described the stanza form choose one stanza and analyze the relationship between form and content. Does the stanza form reinforce, contradict, clarify... the content? Explain how.
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