English Quotes AT2 Year 11

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When you are old - 1893 QUOTES

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep”

“nodding by the fire take down this book”

“bending down beside the glowing bars”

“Murmur a little sadly how love fled”

“Hid amid a crowd of stars”

“How many loved your moments of glad grace”

“But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you”

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Wild Swans At Coole - 1917 QUOTES

“The trees in their autumn beauty”

“Under the October twilight”

“Mirrors a still sky” “All suddenly mount”

“Drift on the still water” “Mirrors a still sky” “unwearied still

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An Irish Airman Forsees His Death - 1918

“Lonely impulse of delight”

“Cheering crowds” “lonely impulse”

“The years to come seem waste of breath”

“waste of breath the years behind”

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Easter 1916 - 1921

“coming with vivid faces” “Grey eighteenth century houses”

“enchanted to a stone"

“From cloud to tumbling cloud”

“Shadow of cloud on the stream”

“hens to moorcocks call”

“Wherever green is worn are changed”

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The Second Coming - 1920

“The falcon cannot hear the falconer”

“Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold”

“the blood dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere”

“the best lack all conviction while the worst are ful of passionate intensity”

“Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds” “the darkness drops again” “the Sun”

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When you are old THEMES

Adressed to Maud Gonne

  • Romanticism

  • Spiteful

  • Bitter

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Wild Swans At Coole THEMES

Lyric Poem

  • Ageing

  • Losing ability

  • Anxiety

  • Uncertainty

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Irish Airman THEMES

Iambic Tetrameter

  • Nihilism

  • Unsettling

  • Deciding your own fate

  • NOT SAD

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Easter 1916 THEMES

Elegy Poem

  • Ambivalence

  • Mixed feelings

  • Change of people + Nation

  • Balances critique with admiration

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The Second Coming THEMES

Free Verse

  • Chaos

  • Christianity

  • Sin

  • Disorder