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A terrible beauty is born. That woman's days were spent. In ignorant good-will, Her nights in argument. Until her voice grew shrill. What voice more sweet than hers. When, young and beautiful, She rode to harriers? This man had kept a school. And rode our wingèd horse; This other his helper and friend. Was coming into his force;
The Easter Rising is a double entendre on the holiday; the “terrible beauty” was “born” during Holy Week, which marks the occasion of Christ’s sacrifice. Hence, the Easter Rising is simultaneously crucifixion and resurrection, reality and archetype.
16 de feb. de 2013 · A Terrible Beauty is the story of the men and women of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, Irish and British, caught up in a conflict many did not understand and of the innocent men and boys, executed because of what transpired in The Battle of Mount Street Bridge.
A terrible beauty is born. That woman's days were spent. In ignorant good-will, Her nights in argument. Until her voice grew shrill. What voice more sweet than hers. When, young and beautiful, She rode to harriers? This man had kept a school. And rode our wingèd horse; This other his helper and friend. Was coming into his force;
A terrible beauty is born. In the final stanza of Easter, 1916 , Yeats asks a significant question about the Rising and the subsequent executions: “Was it needless death after all?” Was it all worth it?
Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. The uprising was unsuccessful, and most of the Irish republican leaders involved were executed.
The poem is particularly remembered for the refrain or anaphora that has become one of the most loved and familiar phrases in the English language, the oxymoronic “a terrible beauty is born.”
