Ireland as Nature, Ireland as Woman In the Lyric Poems of Yeats and Mangan.
This paper discusses three poems, two by Yeats ("Cathleen ni Houlihan" and "The Rose Tree") and one by John Mangan ("Dark Rosaleen") and their personification of Ireland as both a woman and as nature itself. All three poems are nationalistic, and the author points out formal techniques like metaphor, and sentimental uses of the feminine nation-archetype, that the poets use to construct their vision of Ireland and the struggle for Irish independence. 6 pgs, bibliography lists 3 sources.
