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'An Irish airman foresees his death' and 'Wild swans at Coole'
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W.B. Yeats's 'An Irish airman foresees his death' and 'Wild swans at Coole' William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin. His father was a lawyer and a well-known portrait painter. Yeats was educated in London and in Dublin, but he spent his summers in the west of Ireland in the family's summerhouse at Connaught. So of his poems included title such as The tower (1928), The rose (1893), The wind among the reeds (1899) and Responsibilities (1914), But I am going to describe how Yeats expresses deep personal feelings and create a strong personal atmosphere in 'An Irish airman' and 'Wild swans at Coole'. Firstly I am going to talk about 'An Irish Airman'. This poem is about an airman who may well be identified with Major Gregory who was the son of lady Gregory who was one of Yeats's friends. Her son was killed in the war. He was...
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