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ENGL 310: Modern Poetry

Lecture 05 - William Butler Yeats (cont.). Yeats's middle period is explored, beginning with the middle-aged Yeats's assumption of the role of spokesman for Irish nationalism and the development of his complicated response to nationalist violence. The aestheticization of violence is considered in the poem "Easter, 1916" and briefly in "The Statues." Yeats's conception of the relationship of violence to history, with particular emphasis on the frightening interaction among the divine, the human, and the bestial, is demonstrated in the visionary poems "The Second Coming" and "The Magi," and finally in "Leda and the Swan." (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 05 - William Butler Yeats (cont.)

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Introduction
[00:07:52] 2. W.B. Yeats Poem: "Easter, 1916"
[00:23:15] 3. W.B. Yeats and History
[00:28:47] 4. W.B. Yeats Poem: "The Second Coming"
[00:34:40] 5. W.B. Yeats Poem: "The Magi"
[00:37:55] 6. W.B. Yeats Poem: "Leda and the Swan"

References
Lecture 5 - William Butler Yeats (cont.)
Instructor: Professor Langdon Hammer. Section Activity: W.B. Yeats [PDF]. Meter Exercise: Robert Frost [PDF]. Metrical Variation: The Example of Iambic Pentameter [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Robert Frost
Lecture 03 - Robert Frost (cont.)
Lecture 04 - William Butler Yeats
Lecture 05 - William Butler Yeats (cont.)
Lecture 06 - William Butler Yeats (cont.)
Lecture 07 - World War I Poetry in England
Lecture 08 - Imagism
Lecture 09 - Ezra Pound
Lecture 10 - T.S. Eliot
Lecture 11 - T.S. Eliot (cont.)
Lecture 12 - T.S. Eliot (cont.)
Lecture 13 - Hart Crane
Lecture 14 - Hart Crane (cont.)
Lecture 15 - Langston Hughes
Lecture 16 - William Carlos Williams
Lecture 17 - Marianne Moore
Lecture 18 - Marianne Moore (cont.)
Lecture 19 - Wallace Stevens
Lecture 20 - Wallace Stevens (cont.)
Lecture 21 - Wallace Stevens (cont.)
Lecture 22 - W. H. Auden
Lecture 23 - W. H. Auden (cont.)
Lecture 24 - Elizabeth Bishop
Lecture 25 - Elizabeth Bishop (cont.)