Constance Markiewicz Essays

“Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?” Virginia Woolf, one of the most talented female writers in history, questioned the society, in which women had no say to their future and had nowhere to display their talents. In her article, Shakespeare’s sister, Virginia Woolf addresses this problem and manipulates her audiences, especially upper classes’ males, to pay full attention on gender inequality issues she discusses by using well-developed

Emily Dickenson’s “I died for Beauty,” is a window into the final thoughts of two passing souls. These souls walked different paths and had different goals in life, yet they still find themselves together in their final resting place. One lived for the Truth, and one lived for Beauty. They lay in their adjoining tombs, and they wonder why they failed. The failed to be remembered for the very thing that they lived for. In the end, after his passing the Truth no longer matter. In the end, her beauty

Yeats uses the metonymy “shrill voice” to allude Constance Markiewicz, whom Yeats disdained for her involvement in politics. Instead, he prefers her to avoid the public sphere and remain a young, beautiful woman. Yeats’ ambivalence is expressed through the use of “motley”. Motley signifies the quarter-coloured