... through cruelty, jealousy, terror and secrecy. The first and third lines start with the main word, while in the second and fourth words come preceded by the word "And". This makes the reader connect cruelty with terror and jealousy with secrecy. We can notice that the stress of the lines in ... result of our intellectual superiority over nature. T he stress of the lines fall in the word "human" in every case in the second stanza, achieved by the fore grounding device. Herrera 3 The repetition of the consonant sounds plays a very important part in the rhythm of the second stanza. We noti...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to consume them. They must sail west, over the Sea, into the Havens. As this example from The Lord of the Rings illustrates, the option to sail to the West by the people of Middle Earth, namely the Elves, is what allows them to live forever. The Elves migrate west to gain a peaceful and immortal existence. William Butler Yeats speaks of ... his intellect are in their prime. He feels as though his mortality limits him severely. The third stanza begins with an allusion to the three holy men "standing God's holy fire". With an apostrophe to the three sages, he begs them to take his undying...

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• Grade Level: High School