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W.B. Yeats
1920
Short Story
War Literature
"Easter, 1916" is narrated in first person from the perspective of an Irish nationalist, assumed to be a persona of Yeats himself.
"Easter, 1916" is narrated in present and past tenses.
"Easter, 1916" references the failed uprising of Irish nationalists, which occurred on Easter Sunday in 1916.
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