This work's description of mutability, "a shadow of a cloud on the stream," is contrasted with the steadfastness of the stone, which also becomes a heart in a subsequent stanza.
This work's description of mutability, "a shadow of a cloud on the stream," is contrasted with the steadfastness of the stone, which also becomes a heart in a subsequent stanza. In another section, the narrator recalls the sweetness and sensitive nature of a poet, and even agrees to sing the praises of a man he once thought of as a "vainglorious lout." It alludes to Gertrude's suffering with the lines "That is heavens part," while at the beginning the speaker recalls exchanging "polite meaningless words" with such figures as Countess Markiewicz and a man briefly married to its author's muse, Maud Gonne. Ending with the assertion that "A terrible beauty is born," its previous lines refer to the executions of such leaders as James Connolly and Patrick Pearse. Named for the holiday and the year on which a certain event took place, for 10 points, identify this poem commemorating a failed Irish uprising, a work by William Butler Yeats.
This work's description of mutability, "a shadow of a cloud on the stream," is contrasted with the steadfastness of the stone, which also becomes a heart in a subsequent stanza.
"Easter 1916"