William Yeat´s Easter 1916, The Nationalist Cause

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When a group of people join together and work hard in order to aim a common cause, it is when a revolution takes place. As regards revolution it is a fundamental change that is expressed in a short period of time, and it contributes not only to produce significant changes in the life of those people who tried their best in order to achieve their aims, sometimes looking for freedom or sometimes looking for justice, but also modificating certain situations that affect people lives. And this is what happened in Ireland at a time when patriots decided to act against the English rule in their country, which took place during the morning of Easter (One of the most important religious holidays in Ireland, the annual festival commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ) in 1916. Throughout his life, William Butler Yeats used his art in a variety of ways showing a romantic side especially during his early life, but his writing started to change as soon as he got involved with the Irish Nationalist Cause, that is to say, with the important historical events that took place in his place of birth, Ireland. In this way, he created the movement of the Celtic Twilight. However, he was conscious enough to know that using his art as regards an important event is not the same as just describing what happened some time, in some place. On the contrary, Yeats had to let his readers hear a voice speaking from a particular point of view. And for Yeats, the Easter Rising that took place in Ireland by a group of people who were looking for independence, was a surprise. Indeed, it made him rethink a great many things, including what he thought about those men and women who participated in the rising. Many of them were his friends, but he had always seen them as individuals who grew up in a grey and materialistic society incapable of heroic action. So, when these people suddenly did act,
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