Yeats
Celtic twilight poet
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was an Irish poet and playwright, widely considered one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century.
He was a central figure in the Irish Literary Revival and helped found the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
His poetry evolved from romantic Celtic mysticism to a spare, symbolic modernism.
Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
We read Yeats's "The Second Coming" in English class.
North Atlantic island republic
- DublinIrish capital city
- SligoIrish county and seaport
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- Easter RisingIrish anti-British insurrection, 1916
Celtic · folklore · mythology · Gaelic · independence · Anglo-Irish · Protestant · patriot
Circular or spiral motion
- swanLarge graceful waterbird
- towerTall slender edifice
- falconSwift bird of prey
- roseStood up, or fragrant bloom
Byzantium · moon · golden · lapis lazuli · horseman · phases · slouching · stone
Theatrical art or turmoil
- stageRaised performance platform
- DublinIrish capital city
- performanceCarrying out a task
- DeirdreFeminine Irish name
Highest academic honor
- literatureBody of written works
- 1923Early twentieth-century date
- StockholmSweden's seat of government
- laureateCelebrated achievement recipient
Irish Free State · senator · recognition · achievement · legacy · prestige · medal · ceremony
Concealed from view
- theosophyMystical divine knowledge system
- Golden DawnVictorian occult fraternity
- spiritualismCommunion with the deceased
- esotericAccessible to few
visionary · séance · automatic writing · magic · Celtic mythology · fairy · Rosicrucian · hermetic
Ireland
North Atlantic island republic
- DublinIrish capital city
- SligoIrish county and seaport
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
Easter Rising · Celtic · folklore · mythology · Gaelic · independence · Anglo-Irish · Protestant · patriot · rebel
gyre
Circular or spiral motion
rose · Byzantium · moon · golden · lapis lazuli · horseman · phases · slouching · stone · hare
drama
Theatrical art or turmoil
- stageRaised performance platform
- DublinIrish capital city
- performanceCarrying out a task
Nobel Prize
Highest academic honor
- literatureBody of written works
- 1923Early twentieth-century date
- StockholmSweden's seat of government
laureate · Irish Free State · senator · recognition · achievement · legacy · prestige · medal · ceremony · distinction
occult
Concealed from view
- theosophyMystical divine knowledge system
- Golden DawnVictorian occult fraternity
- spiritualismCommunion with the deceased
esoteric · visionary · séance · automatic writing · magic · Celtic mythology · fairy · Rosicrucian · hermetic · mask
verse
Metered poetic passage
rhyme · meter · imagery · ballad · sonnet · ode · quatrain · couplet · iambic · pentameter
- Symbolist PoetsBaudelaire, Kahn, Rilke
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
- IrelandDublin, Cork, Irish, leprechaun, Galway
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
YeatsJames Joyce
Virginia Woolf · Charles Dickens · Leo Tolstoy · Henry James · Thomas Hardy
Yeatsminimalist
One favoring bare essentials
Charles Bukowski · Ezra Pound · Robert Frost · imagist · light verse
Yeatslight
Visible electromagnetic radiation
airy · happy · comic · Ogden Nash · Lewis Carroll
- W.B. Yeats
- W. B. YeatsNobel Irish bard