the centre cannot hold History Brings Change Through Sacrifice Easter In this poem Yeats talks about Irish people who died for their country's freedom At first he did not support them But later he understood their importance He writes All changed changed utterly A terrible beauty is born This line shows how Ireland has changed forever People who were once ordinary are now heroes He praises their sacrifice For Yeats history brings change through bravery and suffering History and Escape The Lake Isle of Innisfree Sometimes Yeats wanted to escape from modern history In The Lake Isle of Innisfree he dreams of peace and silence This shows that he was tired of violence and politics He wanted to return to a simple peaceful time Yeats saw history as a circle of change It is often full of pain and beauty He believed that from destruction new life is born His idea of history was deep emotional and full of symbols