An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
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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. 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
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1919 poem by William Butler Yeats
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Irish_Airman_Foresees_His_Death
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2006-09-08T19:52:35Z
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2024-08-30T15:49:34Z
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