Probing Yeats's Mysticism - Colored Nationalism In Easter 1916

Probing Yeats's Mysticism-Colored Nationalism In Easter 1916 William Butler Yeats is considered to be one of the greatest Irish poets in English language, and his poetic achievement stands at the center of modern literature. He had a very long poetic career, stretching from the 1880s to the 1930s, and had experienced a slow and painful change in his poetic creation, starting in the romantic tradition and finishing as a matured modernist poet. Easter 1916 was one of …

…the Celtic Revival, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland's native heritage. Yeats held the idea that literature creation was the effective way to waken up Irish national consciousness and to win back Irish national independence. He believed that the Irish art, poetry, drama, and legend would fill the people with national aspirations in striving for a new Ireland.