Analysis of September 1913
Yeats is portraying merchant class as greedy when he says, "fumble in a greasy till" because a till can be a cash register. He carries on this and says "add the halfpence to pence" because a halfpence and pence is a form of money. which shows that they are concerned with even the smallest of change.He then uses a line "dried the marrow from the bone”. This is symbolism for the Sellers taking away the courage out of Ireland because all they care about is money.Yeats then says, "romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary in the grave". This means that the way Ireland used to be, died with the old Irish heroes or the people old Ireland used to look up to. |