W. B. Yeats and the Easter Rising: Liberty and the Communal Spirit in “Easter, 1916”
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Yeats memorializes the sublime sacrifice of Irish people who died in the Easter Rising in resistance poems such as “Easter 1916” and “Sixteen Dead Men.” He shows why they turned into “a terrible beauty” through sacrificing their lives for the communal cause and admires their heroic actions undertaking in support of the push for Irish independence. As Rousseau and Said have proclaimed, the individual use of liberty corresponds to the altruistic use of liberty for all Irish people living under British colonial rule. In the mist of a conflict to estimate the value of the Easter Rising and the death of sixteen Irish men, Yeats illuminates how their altruistic sacrifice was for the community and the independence of Ireland and elevates their sacrifice as a martyrs’ altruistic struggle for the ‘ultimate liberty’ to uphold human dignity and, therein, achieve a truly liberated community.
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Yeats memorializes the sublime sacrifice of Irish people who died in the Easter Rising in resistance poems such as “Easter 1916” and “Sixteen Dead Men.” He shows why they turned into “a terrible beauty” through sacrificing their lives for the communal cause and admires their heroic actions undertaking in support of the push for Irish independence. As Rousseau and Said have proclaimed, the individual use of liberty corresponds to the altruistic use of liberty for all Irish people living under British colonial rule. In the mist of a conflict to estimate the value of the Easter Rising and the death of sixteen Irish men, Yeats illuminates how their altruistic sacrifice was for the community and the independence of Ireland and elevates their sacrifice as a martyrs’ altruistic struggle for the ‘ultimate liberty’ to uphold human dignity and, therein, achieve a truly liberated community.
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