Textual Integrity and Close Reading (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards
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Textual integrity in Yeats
Textual integrity in Yeats
How poems work together as unified whole thru themes/voice/symbols
Gyric system origin
Gyric system origin
Yeats's philosophy in 'A Vision' (1925): cyclical destruction/rebirth
Swans-gold-eagle progression represents
Swans-gold-eagle progression represents
Spiritual eternity evolving across 3 stages (1916, 1927, 1939)
3 poems in nationalist rupture cluster
3 poems in nationalist rupture cluster
Easter 1916, The Second Coming, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Easter 1916 repeated refrain
Easter 1916 repeated refrain
Terrible beauty (appears 4 times)
Poems using ottava rima (8-line stanzas)
Poems using ottava rima (8-line stanzas)
Wild Swans at Coole, Irish Airman, Sailing to Byzantium
Step 5 of close reading process
Step 5 of close reading process
Connect to collection unity via shared symbols/themes/techniques
Oxymoronic dialectic example in Yeats
Oxymoronic dialectic example in Yeats
'Terrible beauty' - contradictory pairing revealing complexity
Symbol threading progression (6 symbols)
Symbol threading progression (6 symbols)
Swans → stone → gyre → gold → eagle → fly
1916 dyad establishes what tension?
1916 dyad establishes what tension?
Pastoral eternity (Wild Swans) vs revolutionary rupture (Easter)