Question

What is the casual comedy that yeats refers to the poem easter 1916

Answer 1

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• The "he" that Yeats' speaker refers to is a man he describes as "drunken" and a "lout" who has badly wronged some of the speaker's dearest friends. Nevertheless, Yeats includes this man in the "casual comedy," which was what life was like in Ireland before the Easter Rebellion of 1916.