The Literature of
Rebellion
William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and
the Birth of Modern Ireland
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Yeats and Joyce felt that the fall of this historic
figure shaped modern Irish literature?
A. John Stuart Parnell
“TheB.
modern
Arthurliterature
Griffith of Ireland, and
indeed all that stir of thought which
prepared for the Anglo-Irish War, began
Queenfell
Victoria
whenC.Parnell
from power in 1891. A
disillusioned and embittered Ireland turned
away from parliamentary politics; an event
D. Eamon and
De Valera
was conceived
the race began, as I
think, to be troubled by that event's long
gestation.”
William Butler Yeats
D. Michael Davitt
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Who Was the “Big Fella?
One of the most popular Irish revolutionary leaders,
Michael Collins helped negotiate the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
He was the IRA’s Minister of Intelligences at the time.
He might have been set-up to take the fall for
A. Eamon De Valera
anticipated dissatisfaction with the treaty. IRA leaders
knew compromises would have to be made; they also
realized
theGriffith
more radical IRA members would
B. that
Arthur
reject anything less than complete separation from
England. Under the treaty, Ireland was established as
C. Michael
a dominion
of theCollins
British Empire, had to pledge
allegiance to English king, and the Royal Navy kept
control of the Treaty Ports on Ireland’s south coast. At
D. Sean
O’Casey
the signing
of the
treaty, Collins remarked, “I may have
just signed my death warrant.” The anti-Treaty IRA
members launched a Civil War on April 14, 1922. The
William Butler
Yeats
rebelsE.
assassinated
Collins
on August 22, 1922 when
they attacked his convoy in County Cork. The “Big
Fella” was on route to Cork City seeking a truce to end
the Civil War.
Michael Collins
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Yeats’s “A Terrible Beauty Is Born” Refers
to What Event? William Butler Yeats, “Easter 1916”
(Abridged)
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I have met them at close of day
Too long a sacrifice
Coming with vivid faces
Can make a stone of the heart.
From counter
or desk
among greyof the
O when
it suffice?
A. The
Beginning
Civilmay
War
Eighteenth-century houses.
That is Heaven's part, our part
I have passed with a nod of the head To murmur name upon name,
Or polite meaningless words,
As a mother names her child
B.
The
Death
of
Parnell
Or have lingered awhile and said
When sleep at last has come
Polite meaningless words,
On limbs that had run wild.
And thought before I had done
What is it but nightfall?
Of a mocking
tale or
a gibe of the Anglo-Irish
No, no, not night
but death;
C. The
Signing
Treaty
To please a companion
Was it needless death after all?
Around the fire at the club,
For England may keep faith
Being certain that they and I
For all that is done and said.
But lived where
motley
is worn:
We know their dream; enough
D. The
Easter
Rebellion
All changed, changed utterly:
To know they dreamed and are dead;
A terrible beauty is born
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
E.
The
Execution
of
Roger
Hearts with one purpose alone
I write Casements
it out in a verse—
Through summer and winter seem MacDonagh and MacBride
Enchanted to a stone
And Connolly and Pearse
To trouble the living stream.
Now and in time to be,
The horse that comes from the road, Wherever green is worn,
The rider, the birds that range
Are changed, changed utterly:
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
A terrible beauty is born.
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream . . .
A Revolution in the Literary Arts:
Match the Artist With the Work
George Bernard Shaw
To the
Lighthouse
John Millington Synge
The Shadow of
the Gunman
Sean O’Casey
Pygmalion
T. S. Eliot
The Playboy of the
Western World
Virginia Woolf
The Love Song of
J. Alfred Prufrock
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A Revolution in the Visual Arts:
Match the Artist With the Work
Picasso
Edvard Munch
Brancusi
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Manet
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Giacometti
Joyce in Paris
James Joyce
Match the Artist With the Work
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound convinced Joyce to settle in Paris to promote Ulysses and become part
of its artistic milieu. Joyce found a patron in Sylvia Beach who opened her English–
Ford Madox Ford
language bookstore, Shakespeare
and Company, in 1919. Literary expatriates were
drawn to her shop, which is in the background of the photograph, but her most
celebrated literary efforts were made on behalf of her literary idol, Joyce. (The other
person in the photo is John Quinn, the New York lawyer who defended Ulysses and the
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Little Review in court.)
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The Final Chapter of Ulysses Is one of the
Finest Uses of this Writing Narrative Mode:
A. Unreliable Narrator
B. Stream of Consciousness
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C. Epistolary
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D. Voice Over
E. Alternating Person View
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Angeline Ball performs the final lines
of Molly Blooms soliloquy and Ulysses
in the film Bloom to end our quiz.