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The poem focuses on anger depicted by individuals in Ireland. Purposely the poem

intends to discourse the individuals settling in Ireland that make an effort to beckoning on

summons concerning the state of tranquility and harmony especially on issues concerning the

civil disturbance. The lengthy period was involved here for a longer period until the

conclusion of the year 1991. Yeats rid one's mind of concerning these individuals that

beckoned for summoning and went ahead to give a proof of sixteen men executed by foreign

British militia, their brutal means and unwillingness to change their view and coming into

agreement.

Shortly after advocate of nationalism being overdue in 1916, the foreign superpower

state in Irish executed the individuals involved in the mutiny. This gives Irish voice that the

author has technically mustered no wonder choice of word sound to be a single syllabic. The

third line in the first stanza elaborates this through showing view exchange pointing out how

Fast-paced British activity influenced impossibility on giving and part taking through the

brutal murder of the sixteen men.

Notably, the beginning of the first stanza had a confrontation with the nationalist who

did not want war but went ahead to show self-determination. The occurrence of this was short

while just after the killing Patrice who was legible to hold a dialogue on behalf of Irish.

Narrator raised quizzes as he went ahead to question whether the reasoning was still

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important as the killing other defenders such as Macdonough strike the individuals and

moved them so passionately.

Synge in his playboy of the western world presents the Irish folk as supporting and

appreciating the brutality and political violence of the past. He further shows and appears to

be captivated by the ancient period where heroes committed inhuman cruelty and indulging

in reckless activities. The play however according to Irish people is anti-heroic, but Synge

presents the idea of the matter with his inner contradictions. He further claimed that writing a

parody of an accepted values of life is not disgracing the nationalism or the moral codes of

the country.

Synge also seeks to challenge the view in which the play resorts to using violent

images to stigmatize the traditional and non-modern performances in the play. He thus

endorses Abbey's agenda of modernization to show it is a parody and not the real-life

situation. The attitude shown by Synge in his play to the current modern society is an

ambivalent and exposes the culminating scene theoretically. The scene of Christ's Passion in

the play where he was tortured and was nearly hanged by an angry mob that was acting as the

arm of the law is regarded as the invisible violence of the institutions of the current modern

state.

Ireland in 1907, saw themselves has to be able to rule themselves and thus they

expected their artists to promote the idea and image of a regular and self-reliant people. This

was not what Synge in his play ‘playboy of the western world’ had to display to the Irish

people. He acted in the opposite way where his play involves a village loon who uses a spade

to open his father’s head and runs away and calls himself a hero for killing his father.

The play, however, was relevant to the political violence in the Irish history. His

audience during the opening night at Abbey was predominantly male. The paly encouraged

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men to fight hard whenever they felt that something was not good for the Irish. The audience

had already committed themselves to the fabrication of heroism through h the play and the

texts of Yeats and the Gregory. The two had seen offering an antidote to the British imperial

army.

O’Flaherty, V.C was written by George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) for Dublin’s

Abbey Theater in 1915. Shaw had a good reputation for being a play writer. Shaw subtitled

the comedy O’Flaherty as “A Recruiting Pamphlet”. He wrote the play immediately after

Michael O’Leary become the first ever Irish soldier to be decorated with a Victoria Gross

(George, 1916). O'Leary had killed eight German soldier soldiers ending the assaults from the

German barricades. When Shaw was asked whether he had been inspired by the actions of the

soldier, he denied the claims.

After being decorated, Shaw’s character in the play returned to his village in Ireland

to celebrate with his mother. The younger soldier in the first half of the play explains his

candid thoughts with his master who happens to be a general also. Mrs O’Flaherty, an Irish

nationalist, came in while the two discuss their issues and he becomes angry that her son is a

soldier but not for Ireland, he a soldier in the English army.

Shaw on his view believed that he was writing the play to help the British

recruitments in Ireland increase. Using an Irish as a soldier in the British army was

intentional to make the English in Ireland realize that it’s possible to be a soldier in another

man land. Irish nationalist on the other hand never wanted to assist England in the world war

one efforts. By writing the play, Shaw wanted to provide insight into the grievances that the

Irish had on the English people and hence win over his Abbey Theatre. The paly however

brought about the game of politics has the government of Greta Britain intervened through

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their Dublin Castle administration. Several newspapers across Great Britain published that

play had been suppressed by the Censor.

William Butler Yeats, popularly known as W.B. Yeats was one of the famous Irish

poet and the foremost figure in the literature of the 20

century. He helped in founding the

Abbey Theater since he was a pillar of the both the Irish and British literary. His poems were

about violence in Ireland and Europe in general. The pomes also reflect more on the First

World War and other wars that happen in between 1914 and 1918.

In his poem the Sixteen Dead Men, W.B. Yeats narrates about sixteen persons were

killed by the British troops during the Easter Uprising. The poem reflects the uprising that

took place in Ireland in 1916 and the sixteen heroes who were arrested and executed by the

British troops. Yeats in the poem refers them as “stirring the boiling pot” in the first

paragraph of the poem. According to the understanding, he means that war is only necessary

to defend or reinvigorate the nation.

The poem "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats begins with an image of a falcon

flying. The speaker in the poem seems to be focusing on how the future of Europe will be

after the Greta War. The use of the falcon in the poem seems to refer to the collapsing of the

traditions in Europe at the time he was writing the poem (Shmoop Editorial Team, 2008).

One of the stanzas of the poem reads "the ceremony of the innocence is drowned",

Yeats here meant that bad people are the ones having an enthusiasm other the innocent

people. Yeats also seem to be optimistic and believes that there will be wars in future. This is

evident in his poem where he narrates that violence engulfed the society. (“The Second

Coming is at hand”).

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References

George J. Hagar The Standard American Encyclopedia (New York: University Society Inc.,

1916) 12: Victoria Cross.

Shmoop Editorial Team. (2008, November 11). The Second Coming Summary. Retrieved

December 14, 2017, from https://www.shmoop.com/second-coming/summary.html.

Yeats, William Butler (1994). "Michael Robartes and the Dancer" Manuscript Materials.

Thomas Parkinson and Anne Brannen, eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

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