W B Yeats: Three Poems of loss, violence and hope

In "Easter 1916" Yeats commemorates the failed Irish Nationalist uprising of April 24, 1916. Its participants are

All changed, changed utterly:   

A terrible beauty is born.

 

In "Death" the poet muses on the nature of human consciousness as unique and tragic: creative, noble, brave and self-aware.

In the sonnet, "Leda and the Swan," Yeats recounts Zeus's rape of Leda, mother of the Trojan war. This is one of Yeats' most celebrated poems.

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