Meditations in Time of Civil War

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Meditations in Time of Civil War is a sequence of poems by W. B. Yeats reflecting on Irish civil strife, history, and personal memory through rich symbolic and meditative verse.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poem sequence
poetry collection
author W. B. Yeats
linked to: W.B. Yeats
countryOfOrigin Ireland
form sequence of poems
genre lyric poetry
modernist poetry
hasPart Ancestral Houses
I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart’s Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness
My Descendants
My House
My Table
The Four Ages of Man
The Friends of His Youth
The Heavenly City
The Leaders of the Crowd
The Plasterer
The Road at My Door
The Road at My Door (poem)
The Spirit Medium
The Stare’s Nest by My Window
influencedBy Irish Civil War (1922–1923)
linked to: Irish Civil War

Irish War of Independence
language English
literaryMovement Irish Literary Revival
Modernism
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
mainSubject Irish Civil War
Irish history
art and history
civil strife
memory
politics
violence
partOf W. B. Yeats’s later poetry
reflectsPerspectiveOf W. B. Yeats
linked to: W.B. Yeats
setting County Galway
Thoor Ballylee
structure series of meditative lyrics
theme decay of aristocratic order
personal memory and history
search for spiritual order
tension between art and politics
violence and renewal
timePeriod Irish Civil War
early 1920s
usesLiteraryDevice allegory
imagery
mythological allusion
symbolism

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The Tower containsPoem Meditations in Time of Civil War
Thoor Ballylee mentionedInWork “Meditations in Time of Civil War”
linked to: Meditations in Time of Civil War
The Tower containsPoem Meditations in Time of Civil War
subject linked to: The Tower (poetry collection)