Discuss ways in which Yeats presents the experience of Irish people in Easter 1916. In your answer, discuss the effects of language, imagery and verse form and consider how this poem relates to other poems by Yeats that you have studied (An
Discuss ways in which Yeats presents the experience of Irish people in 'Easter 1916. In your answer, discuss the effects of language, imagery and verse form and consider how this poem relates to other poems by Yeats that you have studied ('An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' and 'September 1913'). 'Easter 1916' speaks of the aftermath of the rebellion in Northern Ireland, through the eyes of Yeats himself. He tells us about how "a terrible beauty is born", referring to the working-class men who became restless and began to revolt. This contrasts hugely from 'September 1913', where Yeats points out that the workers have a right to be angry, due to the greedy bankers, and employers who pay them very little for their hard work. In 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death', Yeats only focuses on one person, rather than a group of people like he does in 'Easter 1916' and 'September 1913'. The first stanza primarily focuses on the then-ordinary people, and what they were like before they began to rebel and fight the system. He purposely doesn't make the first couple of the lines very dramatic, so that we gradually work our way into the more emotional side of the poem, rather than be thrown straight into the deep end. He uses the word "vivid", a very ambiguous word, to describe the peoples' faces, to show that the people themselves are interesting, but then uses the words and phrase
