Comparing War Poems

In poetry the writers express many different opinions, some of the opinions happen to be over the concept of death in poems, especially poems about war. War poems are fairly common and give the general public and many other social areas an understanding about war and sometimes how the people in these poems feel about the war itself. These many different poems give us lots of different authors perspectives as to how they feel about what they are writing about at that time. The poems “Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose” by Housman and “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by Yeats are too such poems that compare different perspectives of death during war time poetry. These two authors show in their poems that they have many different ideas on what death and war mean when they wrote these poems.

In the poem “Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose” by Housman the speaker of the poem is deceased and talking to the audience so that they can understand the reason for the speakers death. The speaker in the poem talks about how they did not want to shame their country and that is why they went to war in the first place. This shows that the emotion of shame is a powerful …show more content…
The speaker talks about not knowing those that he fights and that he does not hate them or that the ones he protects he holds no love for. This shows that this war that he is fighting is about other people and that he believes that the war has nothing to do with him or anyone in the place that he lives is affected by the war in which he fights. The speaker also states that the only reason why he fights is because of “A lonely impulse of delight,” this shows that he fights only because he enjoys the feeling of flying through the sky and being up above the clouds (Yeats). The speaker also talks about “The years to