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Easter, 1916 Summary & Analysis
The Easter Rising of 1916, when Irish nationalists staged a revolt to
achieve independence from British control, is commemorated in the poem
"Easter, 1916," which was written by the Irish poet W
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Yeats
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The leaders of the Rising
were finally put to death
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Although their faces might have shown
some internal agitation or intense emotion at first, the speaker had only ever
encountered them in the course of their regular, everyday lives
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The speaker would stop for a limited period of
time and engage in pointless small conversation only to be courteous, or they
would be briefly acknowledged with a nod
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Because he believed that everyone was merely going
about their daily, inconsequential lives, the speaker had nothing more
serious on his mind than a joke
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Some event has taken place that was incredibly devastating yet
also contributed to significant change
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One lady made a sincere, but
mistaken, effort to bring about change
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When she was a young, attractive lady who spent
her time in leisurely pastimes like hunting, she used to have a more
reasonable, engaging demeanour
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One man was a
teacher and poet, symbolically riding it; the other was a poet and
critic, nurturing the first man's skill while also developing his own
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Another man was there, and the
speaker thought him to be a haughty, useless alcoholic
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But the
speaker acknowledges that even this individual deserves respect
and adulation
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This man's involvement in the Rising
also resulted in a complete, entire transformation of him
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The speaker makes the argument that those who, like the
rebels, give their all to a single cause may occasionally come out
as inhuman in their steadfast devotion
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Almost everything in nature, including people,
animals, and the weather, is always changing
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Natural occurrences in life,
such as wild birds mating, demonstrate how every living thing must
constantly adapt in order to survive
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According to the speaker, those who
sacrifice too much of their life in pursuit of immovable objectives
risk losing touch with their basic human emotions
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Simply remembering the deceased
with gravity and affection is all that is required of him and the rest
of the community, like a mother would do after her sleeping child
has finally drifted off after a flurry of running around
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To remind himself and the reader that the rebels are genuinely
dead and cannot return, he rejects that notion
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Despite the nationalists'
hatred of the British, Britain may have adhered to its pledge to
deliver Ireland Home Rule
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The fact that the rebels died in pursuit of this purpose alone is
enough to accord them honour and deference; they don't even
need to know whether the rebels were successful in achieving their
objective
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But once more, he steps back from that conjecture
to think about the rebels who have passed away
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He declares that these rebels will
be celebrated for the remainder of Ireland's existence whenever
the Irish get together to celebrate their nation, their identities having
been radically altered from those of regular people
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