The Fisherman
Small simple notes, easy for exams
- Created by: twassell
- Created on: 23-03-14 20:33
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- The Fisherman
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- An Irish Airman Forsees His Death
- Irish patriotism, 'Those who I guard I do not love'
- The Cold Heaven
- moments of epiphany and realisation of time
- September 1913
- Structure: short lines, syntactical parallelism
- An Irish Airman Forsees His Death
- Quotes
- 'Grey'
- plain man, simple life - suggests beauty of clarity
- 'Commonest, Clever, cries, catch, clown'
- Alliteration suggests Yeats frustration with the Irish people
- 'I shall have written him one poem maybe as cold and passionate as the dawn'
- Combination of simplicity, clarity, calm, chilled, love and emotional poems
- 'Drunken cheer'
- Easy to appeal to the common man, criticism to writers who opt for cheap laughs
- 'Grey'
- Form
- ABAB rhyme scheme suggests simplicity is ideal
- 1st Stanza Yeats uses to get his anger out and to look at the reality of Ireland
- 2nd Stanza Yeats collects himself and accepts Ireland by explaining the dream of the Fisherman
- Context
- 'The dead man that I loved'
- J.M. Synge - The ******* of the Western World
- Character helps Yeats by acting as a mirror for Ireland, showing them the true beauty of a natural, simple life instead of the materialistic one they are fighting for. The 'anti-self'
- 'The dead man that I loved'
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