文档介绍：About poet (1865-1939) ? Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer; educated in London and Dublin both. ? He was member of Theosophical Society, whose mysticism appealed to him as it offered a form of imaginative life far removed from ugly worldly realities. ? Also took part in Irish nationalist cause, most of his poetry reflect the Irish nationalism. ? He, along with Lady Gregory and others, was one of the originators of the Irish Literary Theatre, which gave its first performance in Dublin in 1899 with Yeats ’ play The Countess Cathleen. ? To the end of his life Yeats remained a director of this theatre, which became the Abbey Theatre in 1904. ? He also published several volumes of poetry, notably Poems (1895) and The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) which are typical for their dreamlike atmosphere and use of Irish folklore and legend. ? In his early verse he displays debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Pre- Raphalite poets. ? His later poetry discards the otherworldly, ecstatic atmosphere of these early lyrics and show a new direction where Yeats confronts reality and its imperfections. ? But for Yeats the relation between imagination, history, and the occult remains indispensable. ? In 1922, on the foundation of the Irish Free State, Yeats accepted an invitation to e a member of the new Irish Senate; he served for six years, and in 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. About Poem ? The Easter Rising was a rebellion, mostly in Dublin city, that lasted from April 24 th to April 30 th 1916. ? The insurgents included 1200 men and women from the Irish Volunteers, Irish Citizen Army and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). ? The Rising was planned in secret by seven men, mostly of the Irish Republic Brotherhood, who had formed a “ Military Council ” just before the outbreak of First World War. ? The leaders were Tom Clarke, Dean McDermott, Patrick Pearse , Thomas MacDonagh , Joseph Plunkett, James Connol