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Students will need computers (and possibly additional film-making equipment) for the following activities:
- Days 1 and 2 will encourage students to conduct internet research to better grasp the historical period.
- Days 1-5 will use the concept of "storyboards" borrowed from film-making. Students will be encouraged to create electronic storyboards and share them through PowerPoint, Prezi, or other presentation software.
- Day 5 will make use of sound recordings of Yeats reading his own poetry.
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The Question and Answer section for Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Tower is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The poem traces the speaker’s movement from youth to age, and the corresponding geographical move from Ireland, a country just being born as Yeats wrote, to Byzantium. Yeats felt that he no longer belonged in Ireland, as the young or the young in...
The speaker only has a few lines to convey that core emotions like lust and rage need not be pejorative. The speaker still wants passion in his life. He wants to feel flashes of youth that still lay within his spirit.
The speaker prays to be passionate about life in his old age rather than reasonable and predictable. He wants to feel young inside rather that than old.
