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Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. The rebellion was unsuccessful, and most of the Irish republican leaders involved were executed.
It describes a fictional conversation between James Connolly and Patrick Pearse, the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. First, Pearse says that a "breath of politic words" or a "wind that blows / across the bitter sea" (Britain [2]) might have withered their "Rose Tree," or, Ireland. [3] Connolly replies that the tree "needs to be but watered."
Gilbert Waterhouse, Rail-Head and other poems (posthumous) Evelyn Waugh, The World to Come: A Poem in Three Cantos (written at age 12; privately printed) Anna Wickham, The Man With A Hammer; Alfred Williams, War Sonnets and Songs; W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: "Easter, 1916" [11] Responsibilities and Other Poems [11]
Michael Robartes and the Dancer is a 1920 book of poems by W. B. Yeats. It includes the poems: Michael Robartes and the Dancer; Solomon and the Witch; An Image from a Past Life; Under Saturn; Easter, 1916; Sixteen Dead Men; The Rose Tree; On a Political Prisoner; The Leaders of the Crowd; Towards Break of Day; Demon and Beast; The Second Coming ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "1916 poems" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Easter, 1916; F. Fog (poem) I.
Yeats most famous nationalist poem Easter 1916 makes an allusion to MacDonagh as a friend of Pearse: "This other his helper and friend/ Was coming into his force/ He might have won fame in the end/ So sensitive his nature seemed/ So daring and sweet his thought". [12] His friend Francis Ledwidge's Lament for Thomas MacDonagh also commemorates him.
1910 – Poems: Second Series [2] 1911 – Synge and the Ireland of his Time, nonfiction [2] 1912 – The Cutting of an Agate; 1912 – Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany; 1912 – A Coat; 1913 – Poems Written in Discouragement; 1916 – Responsibilities, and Other Poems [2] 1916 – Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, nonfiction [2 ...
The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), [2] also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War.