Meditations in Time of Civil War
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Meditations in Time of Civil War is a sequence of poems by W. B. Yeats reflecting on Irish civil strife, history, and personal memory through rich symbolic and meditative verse.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
poem sequence
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poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | W. B. Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| form | sequence of poems ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
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modernist poetry ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Ancestral Houses
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I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart’s Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness NERFINISHED ⓘ My Descendants NERFINISHED ⓘ My House NERFINISHED ⓘ My Table NERFINISHED ⓘ The Four Ages of Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Friends of His Youth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Heavenly City NERFINISHED ⓘ The Leaders of the Crowd NERFINISHED ⓘ The Plasterer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Road at My Door NERFINISHED ⓘ The Road at My Door (poem) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Spirit Medium NERFINISHED ⓘ The Stare’s Nest by My Window NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Irish Civil War (1922–1923)
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Irish War of Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Irish Literary Revival
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Modernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Irish Civil War
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Irish history ⓘ art and history ⓘ civil strife ⓘ memory ⓘ politics ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| partOf | W. B. Yeats’s later poetry ⓘ |
| reflectsPerspectiveOf | W. B. Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
County Galway
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Thoor Ballylee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | series of meditative lyrics ⓘ |
| theme |
decay of aristocratic order
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personal memory and history ⓘ search for spiritual order ⓘ tension between art and politics ⓘ violence and renewal ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Irish Civil War
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early 1920s ⓘ |
| usesLiteraryDevice |
allegory
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imagery ⓘ mythological allusion ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
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