ENG 342RW Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Stolen Child, Maud Gonne, Irish Mythology
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But three things that remain constant: ireland, cultural nationalism and political nationalism, love for maude gonne, occult/ magic, some think it connected to his identity as an anglo-irish protestant since they were looking into alternative systems. The lake isle of innisfree : poem of nostalgia and longing, he"s in london when he writes it, it"s a poem of exile written by a person who is not home. Innisfree is an island off the coast of sligo: he was reading thoreau when writing it, can see the influence and comparisons with. The stolen child : 1886, the poem is based on irish legend and concerns faeries eguiling a child to come away with them. Interested in the dark side of the spirit world too, sees it as a world of complexity and darkness and night. The blue and the dim and the dark cloths. Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet:
