When asked to write a poem about World War I, he put his refusal in poetic form in "On Being Asked For a War Poem". Neverthel
When asked to write a poem about World War I, he put his refusal in poetic form in "On Being Asked For a War Poem". Nevertheless, subsequent collections such "Michael Robartes and the Dancer" included many poems from the genre, including several in memory of Major Robert Gregory. One particular work of this poet describes a schoolteacher, a poet, and a drunkard who were "changed, changed utterly" by a single day when they fought and lost. "MacDonagh and McBride, Connolly and Pearse" helped a "terrible beauty" to be born in "Easter 1916" by, FTP, which Irish Nobel Laureate?
When asked to write a poem about World War I, he put his refusal in poetic form in "On Being Asked For a War Poem".
William Butler {Yeats}