Critical Perspectives on Yeats (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards
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Movement Yeats founded to preserve Irish mythology
Movement Yeats founded to preserve Irish mythology
Celtic Twilight movement
Colum's view on 'Easter 1916' terrible beauty
Colum's view on 'Easter 1916' terrible beauty
Transforms rebels into legend, preserves cultural memory
Brooks' modernist masterpiece poem
Brooks' modernist masterpiece poem
'The Second Coming' for gyric tension and paradox
Eagleton's Marxist critique of 'terrible beauty'
Eagleton's Marxist critique of 'terrible beauty'
Aestheticises class struggle, Protestant distancing
Vendler's view on Yeats's dialectical tension
Vendler's view on Yeats's dialectical tension
Balances opposing forces without simple resolution
Bloom's classification of Yeats
Bloom's classification of Yeats
Late Romantic strong poet achieving misprision/sublime
Kiberd's postcolonial reading of Irish Airman
Kiberd's postcolonial reading of Irish Airman
Hybrid identity beyond nationalist binaries, not elitism
Objective correlative definition
Objective correlative definition
Objects/situations that evoke particular emotions
Gyric dialectic meaning
Gyric dialectic meaning
Spinning, cyclical movement between opposites in poetry
Ecocritical reading of 'Wild Swans at Coole'
Ecocritical reading of 'Wild Swans at Coole'
Environmental awareness, natural continuity vs human violence