“A Terrible Beauty Is Born”: Representation of the Internal/External Conflicts in Yeats's Political Poems
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This paper aims to look into internal/external representation of conflicts in Yeats's political poems. To trace the nature of such conflicts, I look briefly at the rise of cultural nationalism to trace the nature of such conflicts. This cultural revival foregrounds the issue of conflicts between Yeats and audience, which creates tension that culminates in the Easter Rising, and result in the birth of terrible beauty. In this context, I would argue that what constitutes the “political” in Yeats's poems are Yeats's conflicts with himself. In this backdrop, I look at the conflicts in the poems “Easter,1916”, “Sixteen Dead Men”, “The Rose Tree” and “On a Political Prisoner” through the central oxymoron “terrible beauty. In “Easter,1916”, I would talk about how the sacrifice of the nationalists gives birth to terrible beauty, which is a fusion of representations of Ireland as beautiful young maiden and old ugly woman. In “On a Political Prisoner” as I would discuss how terrible beauty is embodied in a woman by juxtaposing an image of beautiful and young Constance Markiewicz in the distant past and in more recent past and present, when she turned ugly by her involvement in political activities and imprisoned as a result. I conclude by pointing to the ambivalence of conflicts as something which poses a threat and yet inspires Yeats's poetry.
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This paper aims to look into internal/external representation of conflicts in Yeats's political poems. To trace the nature of such conflicts, I look briefly at the rise of cultural nationalism to trace the nature of such conflicts. This cultural revival foregrounds the issue of conflicts between Yeats and audience, which creates tension that culminates in the Easter Rising, and result in the birth of terrible beauty. In this context, I would argue that what constitutes the “political” in Yeats's poems are Yeats's conflicts with himself. In this backdrop, I look at the conflicts in the poems “Easter,1916”, “Sixteen Dead Men”, “The Rose Tree” and “On a Political Prisoner” through the central oxymoron “terrible beauty. In “Easter,1916”, I would talk about how the sacrifice of the nationalists gives birth to terrible beauty, which is a fusion of representations of Ireland as beautiful young maiden and old ugly woman. In “On a Political Prisoner” as I would discuss how terrible beauty is embodied in a woman by juxtaposing an image of beautiful and young Constance Markiewicz in the distant past and in more recent past and present, when she turned ugly by her involvement in political activities and imprisoned as a result. I conclude by pointing to the ambivalence of conflicts as something which poses a threat and yet inspires Yeats's poetry.
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