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title

"Emblems of Adversity": W.B. Yeats's Poetics of Violence and Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry

author

Sperry, Amanda

abstract

W. B. Yeats’s poetry presents an interconnected world where desire is the progenitor of both violence and artistic expression. His poetry explores the interaction of art and violence. Poets from the North of Ireland such as Seamus Heaney and Nick Laird represent the dual legacy of W. B. Yeats’s poetics in a society where violence has been the norm. Yeats’s legacy influences both Heaney’s poetry that attempts to mitigate violence with art, and Laird’s poetry that attempts to expose violence with art. Reading W. B. Yeats’s poetry through the lens of the poets that follow him allows an exploration of alternative strategies for viewing and reacting to violence.

subject

Literature

Irish poetry

Yeats, W. B.

Heaney, Seamus

contributor

Holdridge, Jefferson (committee chair)

Hans, James (committee member)

Wilson, Eric (committee member)

date

2009-04-22T19:55:00Z (accessioned)

2010-06-18T18:58:53Z (accessioned)

2009-04-22T19:55:00Z (available)

2010-06-18T18:58:53Z (available)

2009-04-22T19:55:00Z (issued)

degree

English (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/14804 (uri)

language

en_US (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

rights

Release the entire work for access only to the Wake Forest University system for one year from the date below. After one year, release the entire work for access worldwide. (accessRights)

type

Thesis