Unnamed characters in this poem include a woman who spends her days "in ignorant good-will" and "her nights in argument/Until her voice grew shrill.
Unnamed characters in this poem include a woman who spends her days "in ignorant good-will" and "her nights in argument/Until her voice grew shrill." The poet regrets giving "polite meaningless words" to the heroes and thinking that one was "A drunken, vainglorious lout." It questions whether the people who are being "changed utterly" "Minute by minute" have suffered a "needless death." Ultimately, it concludes in three places that "a terrible beauty is born" from the actions of "MacDonagh and MacBride/And Connolly and Pearse." For 10 points, name this poem about an anti-British revolt in Dublin, written by W.B. Yeats.
Unnamed characters in this poem include a woman who spends her days "in ignorant good-will" and "her nights in argument/Until her voice grew shrill.
{Easter 1916}