Bitter Gaiety: Yeat's "Meditations in Time of Civil War"
Graduation Date
Spring 1970
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Document Form
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Program Name
Humanities
Abstract
My paper will be divided into four sections. First, using his prose works, I shall examine Yeats's meditative poetic — a chapter which forms the basis for the rest of the paper. Second, I shall explicate in depth the first poem "Ancestral Houses"; third, I shall make a cursory examination of the next five poems; and fourth, I shall explicate in depth the last poem of the sequence, "I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness."
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