Background and the Rising:

William Butler Yeats was an Irish author, who participated in the Irish freedom´s movement. He is considered to be one of the most important authors of the seen victoria time. He studied poetry in both Dublin and London. Around 1916 the nationalism was widespread in Ireland, because England settled Ireland with dominance and made them to one of their many colonies. A lot of Yeats poetry was about the complicated present or uncertain future, as well as freedom form oppression and social division. We see in Yeats poetry “Easter, 1916” how he has captured the conflict of a nation with a social and political poem. It expresses Yeats’ feelings for the War of Irish Independence, through imagery, symbols and themes. – This should be a part of your analysis, as you are, in fact, analyzing.

In The Rising, the Irish people aim at creating a home rule parliament, as a kind of an even regime. I august 1914 the war begins, the nationalist leaders by Ireland, John Redmond and hos colleagues in the Irish party, encouraged their supports to follow them in the war of effort. A lot of people join, more than 200.000 and upon 50.000 lost their life, but in effort to challenge the British imperium’s regime in Ireland. On Easter Monday 1916, they capture buildings, and declared an independent Irish Republic. The rebels stood in 6 days before they surrendered to the British army, because they were considerably superior them. After the restlessness, the leaders of the Rising were executed and so on the “dark time” for Ireland came.

Easter, 1916:
The poem, Easter, 1916, starts in a traditional tone, “I have met them at close of day, Coming with vivid faces, From counter or desk among grey, Eighteenth-century houses.” It shows how Yeats, before their death, had known many of the ones that participated in the conflicts, the Rising. Yeats describes four of the people he had known personally, which supports a reality in the poem. One of them is John MacBride, who mention´s as “A drunken vainglorious lout” also the mentation Thomas Macdonough “he might have own fame in the end, so daring and sweet his thought, so sensitive his nature seemed”. Perfect! You are one of the few who have actually grasped the meaning of this stanza.

In the second stanza Yeats presents stories about humans, participated in the revolution. Yeats celebrates their death by showing their will so that death in a common cause. Which he thinks has made them to heroes therefore he is inspiring to mention them in the poem with a great honor.
In the third stanza, the people of Ireland wanted Ireland free form the British regime. They had united their hearts, and were together nationalist of Ireland. Those stones the people carried among the stream of thing, gave them the power to preserve the normal stream of life, just as a stone that lies in the road hampers the flowing water of a current.
The fourth stanza pays tribute to all the rebels, who sacrificed life and brought a new era to the nations. The poet sees that their death has led to a change in people's feelings in the case of their tragic death and beauty is born. In the final lines of the poem, Yeats states the name of the dead one like MacDonagh, MacBride, Connolly and Pearse.

The structure in the poem is built up by stanzas, two of them is smaller than they others. First stanza has 16 lines in it, the second one has 24 lines, as well as the first one, the third has 16 lines, and the fourth has 24 lines like the second one. 24 lines, 4 stanzas, 16 lines….24.4.16…. The rhyme in the poem would seen as a normal A, B, A, B, - C, D, C, D but sometimes the rhyme will be different and not regularly. The poem seems simple, but with the four long stanzas is it hard to describe the rhyme. What about the rhythm? The narrator in the poem is Yeats, himself. All the stanzas are written in first person, that makes the poem more personal. As seen in “I write it out in a verse” ware Yeats start with a, I, that prefers to himself. The title, Easter 1916, refers to the date of the Rising, which is one of the main themes.
The poem has several themes as, change, Independence, politics and Irish nationalism.
Yeats thought that art and politics were stuck together in certain ways. He used his writing as a joint to express his positions on among other things in Irish politics. This whole paragraph, should have been at the start of your analysis. Symbols are to find in Yeats poem, Easter 1916, the stanza with the phrase, “A terrible beauty is born”, appear three times, and also as the closing line in the poem. It could be an imported sense as there is talking about terrible beauty. An experiment on gathering the different (possibly even contradictory) feelings Yeats feels during the Rising, among other things as the Irish uprising at Easter, 1916. On the other hand, the uprising is beautiful, because it will make a mark in history, like an eventful fight day for Irelands freedom. The sentence “terrible beauty” could be Yeats way telling that history most celebrated moment, that makes a driftnets or a mark for change, usually is a moment of death, or were a lot of people die.