Easter 1916

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by William Butler Yeats Giovanni Inglisa

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Easter 1916. by William Butler Yeats. Giovanni Inglisa. Easter 1916. Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? That is heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child When sleep at last has come On limbs that had run wild. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Transcript of Easter 1916

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by William Butler Yeats

Giovanni Inglisa

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Easter 1916I have met them at close of dayComing with vivid facesFrom counter or desk among greyEighteenth-century houses.I have passed with a nod of the headOr polite meaningless words,Or have lingered awhile and saidPolite meaningless words,And thought before I had doneOf a mocking tale or a gibeTo please a companionAround the fire at the club,Being certain that they and IBut lived where motley is worn:All changed, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born.

That woman's days were spentIn ignorant good will,Her nights in argumentUntil her voice grew shrill.What voice more sweet than hersWhen young and beautiful,She rode to harriers?This man had kept a schoolAnd rode our winged horse.This other his helper and friendWas coming into his force;He might have won fame in the end,So sensitive his nature seemed,So daring and sweet his thought.

This other man I had dreamedA drunken, vain-glorious lout.He had done most bitter wrongTo some who are near my heart,Yet I number him in the song;He, too, has resigned his partIn the casual comedy;He, too, has been changed in his

turn,Transformed utterly:A terrible beauty is born.

Hearts with one purpose aloneThrough summer and winter, seemEnchanted to a stoneTo trouble the living stream.The horse that comes from the road,The rider, the birds that rangeFrom cloud to tumbling cloud,Minute by minute change.A shadow of cloud on the streamChanges minute by minute;A horse-hoof slides on the brim;And a horse plashes within itWhere long-legged moor-hens diveAnd hens to moor-cocks call.Minute by minute they live:The stone's in the midst of all.

Too long a sacrificeCan make a stone of the heart.O when may it suffice?That is heaven's part, our partTo murmur name upon name,As a mother names her childWhen sleep at last has comeOn limbs that had run wild.What is it but nightfall?No, no, not night but death.Was it needless death after all?For England may keep faithFor all that is done and said.We know their dream; enoughTo know they dreamed and are

dead.And what if excess of loveBewildered them till they died?I write it out in a verse --MacDonagh and MacBrideAnd Connolly and PearseNow and in time to be,Wherever green is worn,Are changed, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born.

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William Butler Yeats (Dublin 1865-France 1939)

• Irish nationalism (revived the Cuchulainn’s myth)

• His literary output can be subdivided into 3 periods (Romantic, modern-political, new style)

• Unrequited love for Lady Maud Gonne

Mural showing Cuchulainn hero

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The Revolutionary Leaders(THEY’VE BEEN EXECUTED)

• PATRICK PEARSE (poet and revolutionary leader, began the riot marching on the Post Office and taking control of it)

• JAMES CONNOLLY (James Connolly, who based himself on the ideas of Internationalism and the class struggle, became a mythic figure of the rising)

• THOMAS MACDONAGH• THOMAS J. CLARCKE• SEAN Mac DIARMADA• JOSEPH PLUNKETT• EAMONN CEANNT• JOHN MACBRIDE

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they signed theproclamation of independence

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Images portraying the revolutionary leaders

“Their names are among the heroes of the Gaels”

The 7 majorleaders

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James Connolly• He lived and breathed the

world of the working class• He studied the writings of Marx

and Engels he fought for socialism

• He wanted Ireland to become a REPUBLIC based on the public ownership by the Irish people of the land, and instruments of production, distribution and exchange.

• He aimed to strike a blow that would break the ice and show the way, even at the cost of his own life. He thought that “To fight and lose was preferable than to accept and capitulate”

• Cruelly executed

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Patrick Pearse• The mural depicts a CELTIC

WARRIOR with sword and shield; he wears a costume with Celtic ornamentation.

• The words are those of MISE EIRE, A POEM BY PADRAIG PEARSE, one of the signatories of the Proclamation of Independence, and leader of the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916. It reads:

I am Ireland,I am older than the Old Woman of Bearra,

Great is my glory,I who gave birth to Cuchulain the brave,

Great is my shame,My own family

Have sold their mother.I am Ireland,

I am lonelier than the Old Woman of Bearra. Chamberlain Street, Derry, 1985

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The phases of the rising• The rising began when a small

group of men with weapons over their shoulders took control of the Post Office

• They expected to be joined by a much larger group of protesters soon

• There was only about half the number of Revelers at the Post Office as there should have been.

• The rebellion lasted a little bit over a week. The British soldiers surrounded the rebels and the Revelers had to admit defeat

consequences of the riots

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After the Rebellion

Interior General Post Office in Dublin

Sackville StreetThe Easter Rebellion leftthe centre of Dublin devastated

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The Proclamation of the Irish Republic

• In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood …

• …We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible…

• …We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God, Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms…

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The Wearing of The GreenINSTR VOCAL

Oh Paddy dear, and did you hear the news that is going round

The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground

No more Saint Patrick's Day we'll keep - his colors can't be seen

For there's a cruel law against the wearing of the green.

I met with Naper Tandy and he took me by the hand

And he said, "How's poor old Ireland and how does she stand?"

She's the mosy distressful country that ever yet was seen

For they're hangin men an' women for the wearing of the green

And if the color we must wear is England's cruel Red

Let it remind us of the blood that Ireland has shed

Then pull the shamrock from your hat, and throw it on the sod

And never fear, "'twill take root there, tho' under foot 'tis trod".

When the law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow

And when the leaves in summer-time, their color dare not show

Then I will change the color, too, I wear in my caubeen

But 'til that day, please God, I'll stick to wearing of the Green.

THE SHAMROCK It is one of Ireland's national emblems, and is used mainly by the Nationalist tradition.

ST PATRICK is the patron saint of Ireland because he is credited with converting Ireland to Christianity in the 5th Century AD

The GREEN represents Ireland, the "Emerald Isle", and its beautiful green countryside. The green landscape is the result of underlying limestone and frequent rains and mists

RED CLENCHED FIST. The Clenched Fist is perhaps the strongest loyalist emblem in existence. it is very often seen on loyalist paramilitary murals, and is often depicted with barbed (filo uncinato) wire surrounding it, which is the official symbol of the Loyalist Prisoner's Aid group.

fishbone map

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Fishbone Map on “The Wearing of the Green”

Language Music Symbols

close to people

rich in imagery

emphatic

creates a sing-songeffect

was meant to be danced

the shamrock

St. Patrick

the Irishgreen ground

Irish History

Irish Landscape

Irish religion

the British conquer of Ireland

the fight between Republicans and Loyalists

the carnages

is green due tofrequent rains

the “Emerald Isle”

the green derivesfrom limestone

belonging to diff.religions nurtures hatred

The Wearingof the Green

St. Patrick convertedpeople to Christianity

the British broughtprotestant religion

Green ribbon

Associated with the 1916Easter Rising due to the seasonal decoration in

churches during that period