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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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 Coole
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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