Question

Which lines in this excerpt from W.B. Yeats's "Easter, 1916" suggest that his response to the Easter Rising goes beyond personal animosity?

(That woman's days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill)

What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?

(This man had kept a school
And rode our wingèd horse;)

This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;

(He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought)

This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.

(He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;)

He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

one of the answers are in the parenthesis, this is a Plato question

Answer 1

He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song

Answer 2

He had done most bitter wrong

To some who are near my heart,

Yet I number him in the song;

Step-by-step explanation:

In this excerpt of his poem "Easter, 1916", William B. Yeats mentions the people he knew who were among the revolutionaries in the Easter Rising. The Easter Rising took place in Dublin, Ireland, on Easter Monday in 1916. A group of leaders and revolutionaries occupied government buildings and proclaimed Ireland as a Republic independent from England. Unfortunately, those people ended up being killed.

Yeats mentions, among others, his enemy John MacBride. He talks of John as being a " drunken, vainglorious lout." It is said that, throughout his life, Yeats was in love with the woman MacBride married and, allegedly, physically abused. Even though Yeats has his reasons to hate this man, he numbers (mentions) him in the song. MacBride too fought for independence, and died for doing so. Yeats acknowledges his courage and leaves personal animosity aside to give him the credit he deserves.