... had a laugh at their expense 'At the club.' He believed that he lived in a world of fools and that these men were simply posing as revolutionaries. The rising and the subsequent executions dramatically altered the poet's and the nation's attitude towards the rebels, and forever changed the course of Irish ... 'All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born.' Yeats was very much in two minds about the Rising. The beauty of the insurrection lay in the idealism and courage of the rebels, but the loss of human life and the fanatical instance on the need for a blood sacrif...

• Word Count: 2730
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... their points to their audience. Irony is a significant device used by the poets in the slavery poems "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "The Dying Fugitive," and "Middle Passage." "On Being Brought from Africa to America" is a piece from the celebrated African poetess Phillis Wheatley. Wheatley is known ... for writing poetry with a dominant influence of religious and moral themes. In this poem she uses a highly intelligent and scathing verbal irony. Although it is written in a deceptively mild manner one can catch the hints of ... situational and cosmic irony. In the second sta...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... lists lengthened and reality set in. What had been projected as a brief war became a four year struggle. When the guns finally did fall silent, the German, Austrian, Russian empires collapsed, and the greater part of a generation of young men lay dead. At the beginning of the war, most poets wrote about how it was patriotic to fight or even die for your ... soldier doesn't get his helmet on in time and now he is surrounded by green gas. The last two lines of this stanza describes the soldier dying, "Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, as under a green sea, I saw him drown...

• Word Count: 983
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School