Terrible beauty and the economy of sacrifice: An identity group theory reading of Yeats’s Easter, 1916
This article offers a close reading of W.B. Yeats’s Easter, 1916 (Online Appendix 1), arguing that the poem not only commemorates the Easter Rising of 1916 but stages a process of identity revaluation through which ordinary, unevenly regarded individuals are transformed into figures of collective renown. It approaches...