Yeats and His Widening Gyres – Course Website

Course Resources

• Welcome Letter

Class PowerPoints

Class One PowerPoint

POEMS – CLASS 1

• Landscape Poems
• Falling of Leaves and 2nd stanza of Ode to Melancholy
• Gort na Saileán (Down by the Sally Gardens) – YouTube
• “Down by the Sally Gardens” – traditional Song – (Irish: Gort na Saileán) – YouTube

POEMS – CLASS 2

• No Second Troy
• Easter, 1916
• Come Gather Round Me Parnellites
• The Ballad of Moll Magee
• In Memory of Eva Gore

POEMS – CLASS 3

• The Mother of God from The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
• Leda and the Swan from The Tower (1918)
• The Second Coming from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
• Summer, 1969 By Seamus Heaney

POEMS – CLASS 4

• Under Ben Bulben
• Sailing to Byzantium