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Poetry of William Butler Yeats: The Death Of Cuchulain

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Yeats, William Butler

Yeats, William Butler
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Death Of Cuchulain:

In this last pay, The Death of Cuchulain, the hero is given six mortal
wounds by the kinsmen and followers of Queen Maeve, an old enemy of the
Ulstermen. As he is preparing for the battle, he acknowledges, before Eithne
Inguba, his gratitude to Emer for having saved him from the sea. She tries to
dissuade him from going out to fight, but he insists, He leaves, is wounded,
and returns. Aoife, whose son he killed in On Baile's Strand, binds him with
her veil to a tree, preparatory to giving him the death-blow. But before she
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