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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.
Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916.
The Death of Cuchullin The White Birds Father Gilligan Father O'Hart When You Are Old The Sorrow of Love The Ballad of the Old Foxhunter A Fairy Song The Pity of Love "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" A Cradle Song The Man who Dreamed of Fairy Land Dedication of Irish Tales The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner When You are Sad The Two Trees
"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 ...
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.
1919 – The Wild Swans at Coole, significant revision of the 1917 edition: has the poems from the 1917 edition and others, including "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" and "The Phases of the Moon"; contains: "The Wild Swans at Coole", "Ego Dominus Tuus", "The Scholars" and "On being asked for a War Poem" [2]
Responsibilities and a Play was printed and published by Yeats's sister, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, at the Cuala Press in 1914. 400 copies were published. [1]The work contained thirty one poems and a new version of the play The Hour Glass, which was originally written in collaboration with Lady Gregory, but now presented in a new version.
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