Poetry

To a Child Dancing in the Wind- Yeats

About Mauds daughter, he is telling her to go ahead, dance, b/c she won't be a kid forever. Child's ignorance is protection. The "salt jobs" refer to tears :

Not Waving But Drowning- Smith

About the narrator having depression and hiding it from friends and family, holding it within. They tried to convince themselves it wasn't their fault (family n friends). "It must've been too cold for him his heart gave way". saying that to make em think they he died of natural cause "And not waving but drowning" That he's hiding and holding in his depression (but drowning), but acting like everything is ok (not waving) "Nobody heard him, the dead man. But he still lay moaning" is referring to him and how he's dealing with it

What poems did W.B Yeats write?

"The Lake Isle of Innisfree". When You Are Old. To a Child Dancing in the Wind. The Second Coming and Leda and the Swan.

3 Levels of Pain expressed in Child Dancing in the Wind

"The fools triumph"-Painful. Losing to someone who is fool (Yeats to McBride) "Love lost as soon as won"-didnt see it coming "best ladorer dead"-Responsibility. Death itself. Murphy's Law- W/e will go wrong will happen at the worst time

Important Piece by Joyce

"A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man" b/c it had stream of consciousness technique, also called interior monologue.

What are the 4 layers in "When You Are old"?

1. Beautiful sounding poem, pulls you in 2. Seems vengeful (saying she will grow old) 3. Manipulation (you can avoid this fate if you marry me now) 4. Self Love. About him, not her

Facts about this Age

1921 Ireland achieves self-gov't (most of Ireland) Age of spiritual crisis Naturalism continues (choices and illusion. Every choice you made was already pre-determined)

What are the 2 unlived lives?

1st one: they are waiting for a train. The train passing represents opportunity and a life they will never get to have. The 2nd: Is the life they are living is not properly lived. Their lives shouldn't be lived this oppressed way. "terrors or routine" means the terror of doing the same thing everyday, and going through the racism everyday Daytime=Kids, Nightime=Quilts

Bagpipe Music-MacNiece

1st stanza is trying to create a child like atmosphere b/c of the nursery rhyme style. The child like rhymes are masking the crimes and desperateness that are happening " Then he brings up money and compares the wealthy and poor, and how they are both unhappy. "All we want...." at the end of stanzas. Showing that even the wealthy are unhappy

From the dressing room-McGuckian

1st stanza says she hates men and tries to keep them out best she can. But she cannot live without them, wants pleasure. She likes younger men b/c she can take advantage of em and wants their stamina She was "springless", no spring in her step and could not give birth. They are both writers. In dressing room=get rid of him. Out of dressing room=keep him He is living with her, but she decides to get rid of him

James Joyce poems

Araby. Eveline. Counterparts

MacNiece. Smith. Owen. Levertov

Bagpipe Music. Not Waving but Drowning Dulce Et Decorum Est O Taste and See

Punishment-Heaney

Body was discovered 2,000 yrs ago and was preserved by the big acid. Heaney describers her as a little girl Was not hung, but led by a rope to her execution. Nobody wanted to touch her her b/c she sinned His imagination allows him to feel the tug. He feels bad and sympathasizes even though it is so many years later. The "memories of love" of this 14 yr old Irish girl w/ a shaved head and scarred head refers to the love she and the mystery man had. 2nd half of peom, he is talking to the little girl. "Little scapegoat" means she is paying for the community sins. She was the one who got caught He's wondering if he would have the courage to stop it all.....prolly not Part of the poem is him feeling guilt. At the end he thinks this treatment should be stopped, but understand why it happens

Who were the Irish women poets?

Boland, Dhomhnail, McGuckian

What is a squinting modifier?

Can go either forward or backward. Ex) "w/ my steady hands", means Pleasure the man and good with her work. Backwards=i can lock you out, but it will be cold without you Forwards=gets shivers of pleasure when she sees him

The Skunk-Heaney

Compares women to a skunk He missed his wife from California, both sexually and emotionally Skunks don't exist in Ireland, but he has moved to the U.S Last stanza the girl bends over to pick upa nightdress, resembling the skunk

Who wrote Fiction?

Conrad- The Secret Agent Lawrence-Sons and Lovers Joyce-Ulysess (novel about 1 day) Woolf-Mrs. Dalloway (same)

Seamus Heaney James Simmons

Digging. Punishment. The Skunk Censorship. Protestant Courts Catholic. The Ballad of Gerry Kelly. Newsagent.

Romantic poem?

Disappointed Romanticism. The moon is assoc. with Romance, and element of danger. She plays it safe at every risky sit., romantic Has an epiphany in the last line "The long night was ahead": Surface level=gonna be a long, crying night Deeper=gonna be a long time now w/ sam

Counterparts-Joyce

Earliest literary treatment of child abuse within a family Long rough day at work, his boss treats him with no respect (even though he's a terrible worker) Boss looks like an egg, and the narrator wants to smash the egg He drinks and spends the money at the bar, and also loses in arm wrestling. Rolls up his sleeve to wrestle and beat his own son And English woman brushes by him in the bar saying "O, Pardon" and in the end the kid says "O, Pa"

Who originally wrote Irish Plays?

English who made them drunk, stupid, and violent. Irish got mad so they wrote their own, starting the Dramatic Movement

Censorship-Simmons

Grabbing the balls=The pain it feels to an author who gets censored. Mock Heroic Couplets, Iambic, every pair of lines rhyme Soiled=People keep turning through them, making them soiled and raggy A poet trying to get his works out there but the store owner is censoring him, so the poet makes him feel the equivalent of being censored by grabbing his balls (to show the pain he feels) The owner doesn't understand the poet being honest, doesn't understand poetry

What message does joyce send to the reader?

He thinks you should put yourself first in a life changing event. He is mocking her b/c she never puts herself first for such a big event like moving.

Ballad to Gerry Kelly-Simmons

He was the minority, Catholic in a Protestant town, and was looked down upon (like a black man in South).He was a hard working man. Protestant= Loyalist to Britain They once got along, until the Prot. started w/ the catholics He and his family were killed

The Second Coming-Yeats

His symbol for a 2,000 yr. cycle is the falcon leaving the falconer, a new civilization begins when the falcon leaves. He said things are falling apart in the civilization. "The worst are full of passionate intensity" reminds us of Hitler. The best people have no courage.

Eavan Boland Dhomhnail McGuckian

I Remember. The Unlived Life. Growing Up We Are Damned My Sisters. I Cannot Lie Here. Flowers The Chain Sleeper. From The Dressing Room

Lake Isle of Innisfree by Yeats

Innisfreee is Ireland. He is going to a small cabin where he can find peace, happiness, and relaxation. The last lines of stanza 1 and 2 explain how quiet it is. "And live alone in the bee-loud glade" and "And evening full of the linnet wings (finch)". He is pointing out that nature is good for you He is not at the isle yet, he's in the grey city. "While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey"

What major movement happened in 1980?

Ireland's women poets

Leda and the Swan-Yeats

It's a sonnet with a weird rhyme scheme. It is God raping this girl. Chest on chest, feeling the heartbeat. He is trying to connect when Zeuss ejaculates is the same as the falcon leaving and making the civilization start. When he meets his climax, the Trojan war begins ("broken wall") He asks does she have the knowledge of the God, to tell the future, after he blew in her and she became pregnant.

Which poet and novel beat censorship. Why?

James Joyce "Ulysess". A novel that includes details about how to be a human. mentioned sexual images, which brought lawsuits, said it was porn (not even close).

What inspired Yates work and why?

Maud Gonne inspired his love poems. Most beautiful girl in the world. Proposed 3-4 times. Tried, and failed, with "marriage of the mind". People drove long trips to see her talk about Irish Ind. She married McBride, who was violent and a drunk, which made Yates mad. Tried to marry her daughter at 17, who worked as his typer. Married someone else who let him write about Maud

Flowers-Dhomhnail

Much younger man with an older woman. there is a lack of understanding and he wants a commitment. Stanza 2 and 4 shows that this is not easy for her, she loves him but cannot commit but she is afraid that he will take away her freedom. "Woodbine"-A weed that wraps itself around other plants, bind to it, and kill it. She us old and wise and know that young men think they are in love, but may not be when they are old.

Important themes in the poem?

Names: Yvonne is a Romantic name in a slum hood. "Sam" is a short squat name, just like him. She thinks she's a Romantic, but she's not, she's a Realist. Sam is reality to her. everything he proposes she comes back with realist answer. She wants tall, thin, flowers, poems. Her idea of a perfect man b/c of all the novels she read. Her uncle is a synic, he says people marry just to be married not b/c of love. Christmas cards: Expensive but mom wants the cheap ones--her waiting on a perfect man is expensive b/c the longer she waits the older she gets The bar they go to rebel her mom represents Hell, exciting and risky move The "perfect guy" gives her flowers twice but the downfall was there drunk.

Araby-James Joyce

Narrator is a boy who talks about North Dublin which is the street his house is on. A priest died in it before he moved in. Him and his friends would run around, trying to avoid people like his uncle or Mangans sister. He adores the sister, watching her leave the house. They don't talk much but he's always thinking of her. He fears he won't be able to talk to her, no courage. She asks him if he is going to Araby, a bazaar, b/c she cannot make it. He offers to bring something back and is distracted by it. He's waiting for his uncle, but he's late. He gets to the bazaar at closing time and goes to a booth but the lady did not want his business. Story ends with him angry and the lights turn off.

To know about James Simmons?

North Ireland Protestant. Pretty humorous

O Taste and see-Levertov

Not sure w/ this one. Talking about the imagination of something?

Growing up-Boland

Poem is about French girls, not Irish. About girls that are very close to being a woman, but not yet. Written from Renoir in 1800's. The term "bowed" in 1st stanza could mean like a present to be unwrapped by men, and/0r accepting their fate, bowing their heads. The last stanza is Romanticizing the future Hopes=forward (to womanhood) Memory=backward (at childhood/girlhood)

Literary History for Modernism (20th Century)

Rebellion vs. Victorian attitudes. Roaring 20's was 1st time women went out and showed knees.

The types of Imagery in Leda and the swan

Religious and Oriental imagery which is Romance, connection w/ Araby. Money Imagery-Intrusion of Realism Light and Dark imagery-Resulting epiphany

Eveline-Joyce

She works 2 jobs to take care of her and her father. Treated with little respect. She needs to get out of Ireland, which goes against her promise, but it is better for her. She's trying to find a good reason to stay, but she can't She doesn't have the courage to start over new, she wont mover her legs to get across the barrier at the dock. All she has to do is take 1 step, and she can't

Something Special-Murdoch

Short story. Yvonne is interesting b/c she is reluctant to confide to traditional custom of arranged marriage by her uncle and mom. She says she wants someone special to fulfill her needs. This is seen as unusual thinking, and is looked down upon b/c she's going against her familys word and tradition. Her family found a man named Sam, but she denies him. After some words with her uncle, those 2 spend time together. He says it is going to be "special" We think he is planning to pop the question. Brings her to a couple,places, but last brought her to a broken down tree. The wuote he says about is showing that he is reaching out to her, and how it's a shame for her future to be decided (like how the broken tree future is now), and how she is young and beautiful like the tree. She ends up marrying him, not because he was "something special" but b/c he had a special something.

The Love song of J Alfred Prufrock-TS Eliot

Some diff. possibities who he is talking to: a girl, a man, to himself, his society( which is what Gonzalez thinks it is). The beginning quote is from Dante's Inferno, so we get thinking of Hell This is a tour of his own personal hell ("Let us go then...") The quote on the gates of hell says :Abandon all here, He who enter here" Sexuality is in the quote "One night cheap hotels w/ oyster shells". but he's afraid of his sexuality, his dating life sucks He wants to show his life, not just tell you The yellow flames represents the flames Hell he's very insecure and has no confidence. his biggest fear is people judging him, him being on display Says he wish he didn't exist. 1st he has claws, next step would be nothing Even with great powerful news, he's too shy to say it. "Do I dare to eat a peach". symbol of life, does he dare take a bite of life. Drowning despair

What is Important about "The Waste land"?

The 1st line: "April is the cruelest month"

T.S Eliot Iris Murdoch Dylan Thomas

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufock Something Special Do Not Go Gentle...

Protestant Courts Catholic-Simmons

The girl is the bar maid. She uses her religion as a defense, telling them he does not want to cross religious paths. They don't understand eachother. He calls her a sham b/c she is using the Church as an excuse--could also be calling the church the same thing She teases him so she is not fully committed to the church. She begins to give in when he gives her special treatment. But she does not give in, and he gets mad more at the social restrictions (North vs South) The ending she could have married him, or someone who turned out to be like the speaker

Digging-Seamus Heaney

The pen in the beginning is his calling, it fits snug like a gun in his hand. Digging is the dads calling He has respect and admiration for his father out there digging Gender association, think of his g-pa when he sees his dad. The milk scene is showing how hard working his dad is. No time for breaks Writing is like digging b/c you write and rewrite so many drafts, that you get down to the core as if you were digging thru the surface The g-pa is digging thru the roots of the plant, dad cuts thru the roots for potatoes, and the narrator is talking bout family roots Poem is about affection with your family

I Cannot Lie Here-Dhomhnail

The title means a couple different things like she cannot lie in bed, cannot lie to him, or herself. Cannot be passive instead of active. Doesn't want to give up freedom to be in this relationship in this point in her life He is a hard worker and keeps her from thinking clearly, she is so in love, cannot think straight The last stanza is indented and is the future note the guy will find the next morning, but if she calls him she might fall in love again and give up her freedom, and she is not ready to do that

The Unlived Life-Boland

The whole poem is about cloth and quilting, but they involved children to show that they were important to them. "Cropped circles", means going round and round, not getting anywhere The author is ok with being married, having kids, and thats her life which reflects in poem. These women lives are predestined, just like Eliza Calvert Hall Quilt and Life: With quilting, you have a pttern and you are forced to stay w/ it and expected to expand on it. Predestined outcome. To life, the women b/c they're women, have a life they are expected to live w/ no other options

When You Are Old-Yeats

Unamed narrator talks about a girl he loves but she has rejected him thus far, just like Maud Gonne did. Mentions "love" 5 times, expressing his obsession. It is not clear that he is talking about himself, but he is.

Do Not Go Gentle-Thomas

Welsh poet Good men hold b/c they still have more to give the world Wise Men still fight b/c they are smrter than just letting death take over. Wild men, could be talking about poets. Grave men, serious men, should hang on for life b/c they realized they acted to serious in life and didn't have to The father had the most knowledge (sad height)

Wome in this Age

Were admitted into English universities 1918 women get right to vote

Artists in the Irish Dramatic Movement?

Wilde-The Importance of being earnest Shaw-Major Barbara Synge-The Playboy of the western World O'casey-Juno and the Paycock Beckett-Waiting For Godot

Who was considered the greatest poet of 20th century

Yates

Who thought history happened in spans of 2,000 years?

Yeats

Is this poem prophetic?

Yes. Although it was written 1920, Yeats is connecting it to WW1, Russian Rev in 1917. Then he brings up the 2nd Coming and tries to describe what he sees. W/e comes doesn't care about our civilization, it's envitable and not in any hurry. It's relentless, it''s slow, it's envitable

We Are Damned My Sister-Dhomhnail

a decleration of what her values are, her manifesto. This is the 1st poem in her book, so imp. They are enjoying themselves, swimming and being innocent. The term "hedonism", live life for the physical pleasure The priest challenge is that they will be damned for living like this. They're running around. They knew nothing of being a maid to a man. They went "shoeless" to be closer to earth. Spring is the time for renewal. Last 3 lines said that they did live their lives b/c it says "when we are damned"

What two experiences does he feel at the end of story?

experiencing sexuality for the 1st time, puberty Has an epiphany at the end, feels impetent

What literary elements are in this?

free verse and dramatic monologue

Dulce Et Decorum- Owen

writes about his own personal war experience and how young men are not dying noble deaths, but "obscene" and "vulgar" ones. War is not worth it and he gives an example of seeing a dead soldiers head dangling over the wagon he was being carried off in, and asks if you could handle such a scene.

Ireland have Nobel Winners?

yes, 4 in Literature