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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.
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He inspired the poem, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, by family friend W. B. Yeats. [33] 24 February – The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Paulding sighted the periscope of the Royal Navy submarine HMS L2 in the Atlantic Ocean south of Ireland, opened gunfire on it, and dropped two depth charges, forcing L2 to surface.
"An Irish Airman Foresees his Death" "Men improve with the Years" "The Collar-Bone of a Hare" "Under the Round Tower" "Solomon to Sheba" "The Living Beauty" "A Song" "To a Young Beauty" "To a Young Girl" "The Scholars" "Tom O'Roughley" "The Sad Shepherd" "Lines written in Dejection" "The Dawn" "On Woman" "The Fisherman" "The Hawk" "Memory" "Her ...
The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death". "Those Dancing Days Are Gone" and "Before the World Was Made" are both performed by Carla Bruni on the album "No Promises". "Song Of Wandering Aengus" was performed by Donovan, Judy Collins, Chris Thompson and many more.
It describes a fictional conversation between James Connolly and Patrick Pearse, the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising.First, Pearse says that a "breath of politic words" or a "wind that blows / across the bitter sea" (Britain [2]) might have withered their "Rose Tree," or, Ireland. [3]
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William Robert Gregory MC (20 May 1881 – 23 January 1918) [1] was an Irish flying ace who served as a fighter pilot with the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. He was also an accomplished artist and cricket player. His death was memorialised in a series of poems by W. B. Yeats.