{"id":635,"date":"2022-11-21T18:26:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-1\/?page_id=635"},"modified":"2022-11-21T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:26:51","slug":"sourned-yeats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/poetry\/sourned-yeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurned Yeats"},"content":{"rendered":"
Vern Fein<\/h5>\n

All of his days, William Yeats loved the beautiful,<\/em><\/p>\n

red-haired actress\/mystic\/revolutionary Maud Gonne.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Four times he asked Maud,<\/p>\n

her heart brimming revolution and Theosophy.<\/p>\n

He knelt, asked for her hand, but no forever.<\/p>\n

She to him: \u201dmarriage, a dull affair,<\/p>\n

will ruin your poetry.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Instead, Gonne married a fierce revolutionary\u2014<\/p>\n

Major John McBride\u2014<\/p>\n

dashing, arrogant, ignorant,<\/p>\n

brave right through his execution<\/p>\n

for the Easter Uprising.<\/p>\n

With him she bore a son, Sean.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Maud campaigned, marched,<\/p>\n

organized for her love of country.<\/p>\n

The Red Cross became<\/p>\n

the White Cross for Ireland.<\/p>\n

World-eyed, she helped birth<\/p>\n

the African National Congress.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Fired by his mother\u2019s heart, Sean,<\/p>\n

a founder of Amnesty International,<\/p>\n

received the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In 2011, eighteen Egyptian women<\/p>\n

were arrested, jailed, beaten,<\/p>\n

searched with electric cattle prods.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

One example of thousands,<\/p>\n

Amnesty intervened<\/p>\n

for justice over and over.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Broken-hearted, William\u2014<\/p>\n

her persistent rebuffs<\/p>\n

birthed requited mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vern Fein All of his days, William Yeats loved the beautiful, red-haired actress\/mystic\/revolutionary Maud Gonne.   Four times he asked Maud, her heart brimming revolution and Theosophy. He knelt, asked for her hand, but no forever. She to him: \u201dmarriage, a dull affair, will ruin your poetry.”   Instead, Gonne married a fierce revolutionary\u2014 Major John McBride\u2014 dashing, arrogant, ignorant, brave right through his execution for the Easter Uprising. With him she bore a son, Sean.   Maud campaigned, marched, organized for her love of country. The Red Cross became the White Cross for Ireland. World-eyed, she helped birth the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-635","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/635\/revisions\/637"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}