Ango-Irish Conflict II

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• Leerjaar 6

Lough Gill

The Anglo Irish Conflict

Poems about the conflict between the English and the Irish

War & Peace

Beowulf -  Anglo-Saxon Period

World War I Poets  

Anglo-Irish Conflict 

William Butler Yeats (1888) = Victorian

U2 (1982) & Seamus Heaney (1981) = Postmodern

Anglo-Irish poetry

Road map

• W.B. Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innishfree
• Work on assignments

lesson goals

At the end of class you can

• understand the LIoI
• place it in the conflict of the Anglo-Irish conflict

W.B. Yeats

(1865 - 1939)

Anglo-Irish 

Focus on peace

W.B. Yeats

https://poetryarchive.org/poem/lake-isle-innisfree/

the poem

rhyme scheme

3 quartrains

allusion to the story of the Prodigal Son

Innisfree

Do 

What kind of picture does each work paint in relation to the conflict at hand? 

Describe in your own words. Refer to the poems in your answer.

Do 

Assignments

Test on 12 February 2025

Assignments should be finished by then. 

Strands

https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands

Wordle

https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

Squaredle

https://squaredle.app/