Today we visited the Oscar Wilde statue which I thought was an extremely wonderful depiction of Wilde himself. It captured an almost desperation and mystery in his face that I can feel in his writing. I feel that it could be apart of his background as well. Since he was incarcerated for being a gay man, I feel that the statue emanates that feeling of desperation that I had stated earlier. Afterwards we headed over to the National Library of Ireland where the Yeates exhibit was. I thought this exhibit was something extremely cool that I feel captured Yeates life in a light I have never thought about. I thought it was extremely captivating how they kept the glasses he died in, and even a lock of his hair!! My personal favorite part of the exhibit was how they depicted his “library”. It had books all along the shelves along with posters plastered in almost a manic order about the rebellion to take back Irish land against the British. It really captivated the mindset in which Yeates wrote his iconic poems. I feel that it also showed the mindset of many Irish Republicans during that period, and I think that can tie into how the theory of place is also connected to time. A lot of places can mean something to you in a certain time, but the relationship will change throughout your lifetime. This creates history, so if a place has historical value, it once had a certain meaning, so throughout history that meaning has changed dramatically and is influenced by the other events going on around us. This makes the concept of place extremely fluid, because time is a variable that constantly changes.