In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
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- In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
- CONTEXT
- Written in memory of Eva and Constance in 1895.
- Politically active sisters: Eva- was a suffragette and constance: ?
- Yeats didn't agree with their later activities and wanted to remember them in their innocence
- Overall Idea: concerned that women are involved in politics and not the creative.
- LANGUAGE
- STANZA 1
- 'Two girls in silk kimonos, both/Beautiful,one a gazelle"
- elegant girls
- 'silk kimonos'-feminine exotic, luxury showing them to be attractive /admired , displaying their wealth
- gazelle - fast/ elegant innocent but also vulnerable a prey
- "But a raving autumn shears"
- personifies time. Autumn breaks up the image
- time is out of control- LINK to Wild Swans distorting their beauty.
- "some vague Utopia"
- =very dismissive tone patrionicing her perfect world/ the world of poiltics. this is ironic as Yeats strives for his own uTOPIA WHICH THEY DO NOT FIT LATERIN THE POEMM.
- Smal cause: snytax nt giving it much thought adding to degrading tone
- STANZA 1
- "skeleton-gaunt'
- cesura and harsh 'g'-glottal sound, is unpleasant to the ear and further emphasises the horror of ageing for Yeats and grim nature he perceives it to be like . laugh
- first stanza: but - conjunction changes the drection for them oassive nd lazy mood to one with more presence but also disaproval
- Paradoned, drags out lonely years"
- long vovel sounds make time go slowly, highlighting the pain and sadness
- "skeleton-gaunt'
- STANZA 1
- mocking tone : "when withered old and skeleton-gaunt,/ An image of such poltics
- Link to Easter 1916 and Sept 1913- atitudes towards contempories.
- haggered by poltics, politics ages them and turns them ugly
- Like Maud i n Among School children; yeats worry and fear of ageing
- Repeating first lines: "that table of youth,...."
- Trying to perserve them as how he liked them in this inncocent image.
- 'Two girls in silk kimonos, both/Beautiful,one a gazelle"
- STANZA 2
- 'dear shadows, now you know it all"
- Direct Address: addressing the dead girls; atitudes towards the afterlife lack of religious connection but he still believe in the possiblities after death.
- 'All the folly of fight/ with common wrong or right.'
- suggesting their fight was pointless
- FRICATIVES; enhance the fattily
- full rhyme suggests childish play and silly ideas; like a nursery rhyme
- MATCH/ FIRE
- "Arise and bid me strike a match'
- addressing the girls: trying to create entinity by setting fire to time. wants to purfie them. to be remembered
- "bid me strike and match and blow"
- He wants to return to the 'golden age' when culture was strong with artherincacy
- AMBIGUOUS=is he frustrated? he hopes to cure them of these ideas? to become creative? wats the world to in his utopia
- "bid me strike and match and blow"
- "great gazebo'
- slang term for nationalism therefore he mocks them as follish
- addressing the girls: trying to create entinity by setting fire to time. wants to purfie them. to be remembered
- "Arise and bid me strike a match'
- 'dear shadows, now you know it all"
- STANZA 1
- STRUCTURE
- STANZA 1
- FIRST 4 LINES-thats how he wants to remember them when they were static, motionless.
- STANZA 1
- FORM
- STANZA 1
- "skeleton-gaunt'
- cesura and harsh 'g'-glottal sound, is unpleasant to the ear and further emphasises the horror of ageing for Yeats and grim nature he perceives it to be like . laugh
- first stanza: but - conjunction changes the drection for them oassive nd lazy mood to one with more presence but also disaproval
- Paradoned, drags out lonely years"
- long vovel sounds make time go slowly, highlighting the pain and sadness
- "skeleton-gaunt'
- STANZA 1
- CONTEXT
- Politically active sisters: Eva- was a suffragette and constance: ?
- "the older is condemned to death"
- STANZA 1
- 'Two girls in silk kimonos, both/Beautiful,one a gazelle"
- elegant girls
- 'silk kimonos'-feminine exotic, luxury showing them to be attractive /admired , displaying their wealth
- gazelle - fast/ elegant innocent but also vulnerable a prey
- "But a raving autumn shears"
- personifies time. Autumn breaks up the image
- time is out of control- LINK to Wild Swans distorting their beauty.
- "some vague Utopia"
- =very dismissive tone patrionicing her perfect world/ the world of poiltics. this is ironic as Yeats strives for his own uTOPIA WHICH THEY DO NOT FIT LATERIN THE POEMM.
- Smal cause: snytax nt giving it much thought adding to degrading tone
- mocking tone : "when withered old and skeleton-gaunt,/ An image of such poltics
- Link to Easter 1916 and Sept 1913- atitudes towards contempories.
- haggered by poltics, politics ages them and turns them ugly
- Like Maud i n Among School children; yeats worry and fear of ageing
- Repeating first lines: "that table of youth,...."
- Trying to perserve them as how he liked them in this inncocent image.
- 'Two girls in silk kimonos, both/Beautiful,one a gazelle"
- her fight for women's freedomm/ her political belief lands her in prisonment
- STANZA 1
- FORM
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