Irish Literature: ENGL 255-01
Wednesday, Jan 22nd
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Color Key: Vocabulary | Assignment/ Readings
Quiz Q: What poem by William Butler Yeats does the proclamation refer to? (She never
said)
NOTES
● Easter 1916: What 2 lines get repeated more than once? (refrain): Alls changed,
changed utterly…a terrible beauty is born
○ Fight for independence
○ A certain class of person might have a men’s club in the early 20th century
■ A kind of class; behavior
○ Motley: black or red on one side, yellow or black on the other side; fools,
jokers, outsiders, wildcards
○ What voice more sweet than hers…
■ Harrier is an airplane but also means riding hounds; a fox hunt
○ Who is the winged horse in mythology? Pegasus
○ Armed uprising is a casual comedy- he has mixed feelings about armed
uprisings
○ ...Trouble the living stream- meaning: one weight, one stone, together
○ moorhens - about the size of a pheasant
○ Think about when the rebels were actually worse than the people were
fighting at some point during the rebellion
○ Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart
○ Did they die in vain?
● Irish flag- green for Ireland, orange for northern Ireland, white for peace
● The magi
○ Who were the guys?- three wise men
○ Pale unsatisfied?- why?- bothered by calvary
○ Crucifixion
○ Does not say anything about the resurrection of afterward
○ Uncontrollable mystery = virgin birth
○ Does not feel irish; more like a grenade
● I know that I Shall Meet My Fate...An Irish Airman Forsees His Death
○ Son of lady gregory
○ Robert
