If you're studying the poetry of W.B. Yeats for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you!

English teacher Peter Tobin is back and he's here to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays.

Peter covers different aspects of Yeat's poetry in this podcast, including a detailed analysis into Yeats biography and the influence that had on his work.

Then, Peter focuses on each of the 10 Yeats poems that feature on the Leaving Cert English syllabus. There are timecodes below to skip to only the poems you're studying in class.

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q

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https://www.studyclix.ie/community/leaving-certificate/english/

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Timecodes:

1.56 - Yeat's Biography

11:13 - Yeat's Influences

14:36 - Lake Isle of Inisfree

16:29 - September 1913

19:17 - The Wild Swans of Cool.e

21:20 - Easter 1916

24:49 - An Irish Arm Foresees His Death

27:12 - Sailing to Byzantium

29:49 - The Second Coming

32:11 - From Meditations In Time Of Civil War 

34:02 - In Memory Of Eva Con Booth and Constant Marck

36:46 - Swifts Epitaph

39:08 - Politics 

40:26 - Under Benbulden (Parts 5 & 6)

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