the song of wandering aengus. yeats on irish mythology and the need for change "gaelic irish...
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The Song of Wandering Aengus
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Yeats on Irish mythology and the need for Change
"Gaelic Irish literature was intolerably low in tone with very little idealism in it, and very little imagination" • Yeats needed to make adjustments...
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Mythological Aengus...in brief...
• Aengus, an ancient prince, was haunted by the dream of a fair young woman.
• In the dream, the young woman is everything he
could ever wish for. • He quickly falls in love with her and becomes
lovesick upon waking. • He began to search all of Ireland for the young
woman in his dreams.
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More Aengus...• Aengus tells his mother, she searches, and after a year,
she cannot find the woman • Aengus asks his father, the king, to help search for the
maiden. • After a year of searching, his father could not find her.
• Finally, the king and a friend of the king search for her.
After a year, he finds the elusive young maiden. • The End
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This Aengus wouldn't work for Yeats
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He needed something more...compelling
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What does Yeats add to Aengus?
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What new ideas are present in the "Song of Wandering Aengus?" Maybe...• Why the use of the myth? • Maude Gonne? • Contemporary Irish Nationalism?