Comments on: Poem 12: “Easter, 1916” http://www.tengrrl.com/blog/2009/04/12/poem-12-easter-1916/ tengrrl v2.0 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:12:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ashok http://www.tengrrl.com/blog/2009/04/12/poem-12-easter-1916/comment-page-1/#comment-472 ashok Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:24:30 +0000 http://www.tengrrl.com/blog/?p=970#comment-472 I was just looking to see what people had posted about Easter, 1916, and I really enjoyed this entry - thanks for linking to the National Library of Ireland exhibit! I hadn't seen that one before. I do have a few thoughts about this poem, if you're curious: <a href="http://www.ashokkarra.com/2008/01/birth-of-a-nation-on-yeats-easter-1916/" rel="nofollow">analysis of Easter, 1916</a>. But I know next to nothing about the actual historical impact of the poem; I just muse, perhaps, on what it aspires to be. I was just looking to see what people had posted about Easter, 1916, and I really enjoyed this entry – thanks for linking to the National Library of Ireland exhibit! I hadn’t seen that one before.

I do have a few thoughts about this poem, if you’re curious: analysis of Easter, 1916. But I know next to nothing about the actual historical impact of the poem; I just muse, perhaps, on what it aspires to be.

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