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An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
by William Butler Yeats
Written
1918 (1918)
First published in
1919 (1919)
Country
Ireland
Language
English
Meter
Iambic tetrameter
Rhyme scheme
ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
Publisher
Macmillan
Publication date
1919 (1919)
Media type
Paperback
Lines
16
OCLC
48380639
Preceded by
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
Followed by
Men Improve with the Years
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"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), written in 1918 and first published in the Macmillan edition of The Wild Swans at Coole in 1919.[1] The poem is a soliloquy given by an aviator in the First World War in which the narrator describes the circumstances surrounding his imminent death. The poem is a work that discusses the role of Irish soldiers fighting for the United Kingdom during a time when they were trying to establish independence for Ireland. Wishing to show restraint from publishing political poems during the height of the war, Yeats withheld publication of the poem until after the conflict had ended.[2]
^Pierce 2000 p.274
^Foster 2001 pp.68 –69
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