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The Circus Animals' Desertion

Index The Circus Animals' Desertion

"The Circus Animals' Desertion" is a poem by William Butler Yeats published in Last Poems in 1939. [1]

14 relations: Christian, Envoi, Helen Vendler, Ireland, Literary modernism, Oisin, Ottava rima, Poetry, Politics (poem), Postmodern literature, Preface, Stanza, The Countess Cathleen, W. B. Yeats.

Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Envoi

An envoi or envoy is a short stanza at the end of a poem such as ballad used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.

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Helen Vendler

Helen Hennessy Vendler (born April 30, 1933) is an American literary critic and is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Literary modernism

Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction.

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Oisin

Oisín (pronounced in Irish as, with stress on first syllable) is an Irish male given name.

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Ottava rima

Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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Politics (poem)

Photograph of William Butler Yeats taken February 7, 1933. "Politics" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats written on May 24, 1938.

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Postmodern literature

Postmodern literature is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.

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Preface

A preface or proem is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author.

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Stanza

In poetry, a stanza (from Italian stanza, "room") is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation.

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The Countess Cathleen

The Countess Cathleen is a verse drama by William Butler Yeats in blank verse (with some lyrics).

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circus_Animals'_Desertion

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