W. B. Yeats

Analysis of W. B. Yeats’s The Second Coming

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on March 15, 2021 • ( 0 )

One of the most famous poems in the English language, The Second Coming is the definitive vision of the Yeatsian apocalypse. It incorporates and intensifies ideas of cyclic creation and destruction already articulated in poems like “The Magi,” “On Woman,”… Read More ›

Analysis of W. B. Yeats’s Easter 1916

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on March 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

The Easter Rising of 1916 catalyzed the final phase of the Irish struggle for independence and forced Yeats to recant the stinging assessment of “September 1913” that “Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, / It’s with O’Leary in the grave.” In… Read More ›