Essays Tagged: "terrible beauty"

Probing Yeats's Mysticism - Colored Nationalism In Easter 1916

t. As a result, a number of the nationalists were executed after the Rising. So Yeats called it " a terrible beauty". Obviously, Yeats's attitude toward the heroic event was ambiguous and even critica ... c event. Even though Yeats called the Rising as a beauty, but he put more emphasis on the modifier "terrible". In Easter 1916 Yeats had exhibited his ambiguous and rather derogatory attitude towards t ...

(7 pages) 65 0 3.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

This is a film review of the Movie "Sin City" which I wrote for my college newspaper.

confronts us with heart-stopping cruelty and violence. And it is even more shocking when it finds a terrible beauty in ruination.Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids) defi ...

(3 pages) 33 0 0.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Snow Falling On Cedars

snow gives a silence to a world that is ¡°cold and bare and¡­[in which] lay its terrible beauty¡± (443), while it covers everything underneath and makes it indistingui ...

(5 pages) 11 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Yeats' "Easter 1916"

bellion against Britain. He blames the oppressed colonized very much. He sighs repetitively that "a terrible beauty is born." He blames all the initials and all the actions, but he blames the British ... k do not try to save themselves, who would help them? It is no doubt that to die or to kill is very terrible. Everyone wants to live. However, to live is not just to breathe. Yeats himself says there ...

(4 pages) 1353 0 0.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Literature Research Papers