![]() ![]() This can even be basic information about his country of origin, any famous poems, or lines of poetry they think they’ve encountered. Ask students to think about what they already know (or think they know) about Yeats. Yeats is one of the 20th century’s most famous poets.Think about how rhyme, rhythm, and repetition can create, in to use Yeats’s own words, atmospheres of “alluring monotony” while managing to “hold us waking by variety.” Then, write a poem that induces a state of trance. In her poem guide, Ange Mlinko notes Yeats’s “trance-inducing metric.” Read the poem aloud a few times to see if you agree.Try writing a poem that likewise includes or features proper names. Choose a moment in history to write about and, like Yeats, attempt to invoke the event and its consequences without directly addressing its specifics.What is powerful about the final list of names Yeats includes in the poem’s last stanza? Think about the use of proper names in poems generally: what effect does the appearance of a proper name have on you as a reader? Consult other proper-name poems such as Frank O’Hara’s “ A Step Away from Them” which also concludes with a list of names.Auden’s “September 1, 1939” or Shelley’s “ England in 1819.” Compare it to other poems that treat specific historical moments, such as W.H. Think about how the poem commemorates, fails to celebrate, and/or eulogizes the event. Yeats’s poem is a response to the Easter Uprising in Ireland, a rebellion that eventually led to the Irish War for Independence and the Irish Civil War. ![]()
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