When people who have never been to Ireland think of the Irish, they might imagine a pub full of red-headed, cursing, fighting, drinking men having a good time. The first thing that comes to mind is usually not outstanding writers or influential poets, unless one has a particular writer/poet in mind. William Butler Yeats is a perfect example. W.B. is a Irish born and proud poet who spent most of younger days living in Ireland with his relatives. William Butler Yeats’ poems “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” exemplifies how his Irish life and career affects his poetry. William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 13, 1865. His parents raised him the county of Sligo where they themselves had grown
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The airman is indifferent about how he feels about his enemy or the ones he is protecting. This airman is sure about one thing, he will die on his next voyage. In the second stanza, the airman brings attention to the lack of importance he feels he has in this war and what good will come out of his participation. He is convinced that his individual efforts in the sky will not affect the grand scale of the war at all. He knows that it will also not affect the Irish people he fights for with his heart. In the third stanza, he mentions how no thing or nobody is making him fight this war. He feels he has wasted his breath in his years of service (Crane 2021). “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” is written in two eight line sentences (Crane 2022). The rhythm is in four iambic pentameter and the rhyme pattern is a perfect ababcdcdefefghgh. Yeats uses two metaphors in the poem. One that says the airman has already reached the peak of his life, and another that says the airman feels he has wasted years of his life (“An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”). All in all, William Butler Yeats’ poetry is one of a kind because of his Irish life. “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” and “The lake Isle of Innisfree” are both deeply affected by the time he spent as a child in Sligo. W.B. Yeats will be remembered as one of the greatest english poets ever…and that he was
The airman is indifferent about how he feels about his enemy or the ones he is protecting. This airman is sure about one thing, he will die on his next voyage. In the second stanza, the airman brings attention to the lack of importance he feels he has in this war and what good will come out of his participation. He is convinced that his individual efforts in the sky will not affect the grand scale of the war at all. He knows that it will also not affect the Irish people he fights for with his heart. In the third stanza, he mentions how no thing or nobody is making him fight this war. He feels he has wasted his breath in his years of service (Crane 2021). “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” is written in two eight line sentences (Crane 2022). The rhythm is in four iambic pentameter and the rhyme pattern is a perfect ababcdcdefefghgh. Yeats uses two metaphors in the poem. One that says the airman has already reached the peak of his life, and another that says the airman feels he has wasted years of his life (“An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”). All in all, William Butler Yeats’ poetry is one of a kind because of his Irish life. “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” and “The lake Isle of Innisfree” are both deeply affected by the time he spent as a child in Sligo. W.B. Yeats will be remembered as one of the greatest english poets ever…and that he was