“The Hawk” and Yeats’s Decolonization Process*
Abstract
Yeats also persistently used and interacted with Irish political and historicalleaders. He names many of the political figures in much of his writing and useshistorical events as subjects. Not only does his writing overtly interact withhistorical figures; in at least some of his poetry, Yeats makes subtle allusions toIrish leaders of the past. "The Hawk" may be a poem about a real individual, butone who is never named at all; this poem provides an example of art that, uponcloser inspection, serves politics. The poem not only shows the political relationshipbetween the Fenians and the English government, but it also introduces an elementof the mystical; as Yeats uses the hawk as a symbol of the Fenian resistance in thepoem to illuminate the political situation. He makes the Hawk of the Fenianmovement into the hawk of the poem, he certainly presents the reader with astriking parallel; and he binds together history, politics, culture, spirituality, andpoetry into the configuration of his famous interpenetrating gyres.
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