In the first stanza, Yeats implies to Ireland’s stagnant history illustrated by disillusioned civilians who all live together in the same country and share a common identity. But through the events of 1916, Yeats asserts that they have “All changed utterly”(line 15). The final line of the stanza, “A terrible beauty is born”(line 16), is repeated throughout the poem and is the poem’s main theme. William Yeats describes the people of Ireland working together towards the goal of independence; even though there will be blo

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