英语词汇a terrible beauty is born的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	a terrible beauty is born
词源	a terrible beauty is born. The words are from W. B. Yeats’ poem “Easter 1916,” in which they appear at the end of three stanzas. Yeats wrote the poem on September 25, 1916, five months after the Easter Rising, in which Irish nationalists rose up against the British and proclaimed Irish independence. The event actually took place on Easter Monday, 1916.
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