In this poem's first stanza the speaker comments he has exchanged "polite meaningless words" with a group of people he "met at the close of day / Coming with vivid faces."
In this poem's first stanza the speaker comments he has exchanged "polite meaningless words" with a group of people he "met at the close of day / Coming with vivid faces." The grim prediction "Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart" opens this poem's final stanza in which the speaker reflects, "Wherever green is worn, / Are changed, changed utterly" before asserting "A terrible beauty is born" due to the death of James Connolly and John MacBride, the husband of the poet's lover Maud Gonne. For 10 points, name this poem about the title Irish uprising written by W.B. Yeats.
In this poem's first stanza the speaker comments he has exchanged "polite meaningless words" with a group of people he "met at the close of day / Coming with vivid faces."
“{Easter 1916”}