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On Being Asked For A War Poem by William Butler Yeats
On Being Asked For A War Poem by William Butler Yeats

On Being Asked For A War Poem

William Butler Yeats * Track #30 On The Wild Swans At Coole

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William Butler Yeats

1919

On Being Asked For A War Poem by William Butler Yeats

Release Date
Thu Aug 10 1916
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William Butler Yeats
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“On Being Asked For A War Poem” was written on February 6, 1915, after Henry James, an American author, asked Yeats to write a political poem. It was published a year later in 1916. He claimed it was the only political war poem he wrote:

It is the only thing I have written of the war or will write,...

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On Being Asked For A War Poem Annotated

I think it better that in times like these
A poet keep his mouth shut, for in truth
We have no gift to set a statesman right;
He has had enough of meddling who can please
A young girl in the indolence of her youth,
Or an old man upon a winter's night.

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On Being Asked For A War Poem was written by William Butler Yeats.

When did William Butler Yeats release On Being Asked For A War Poem?

William Butler Yeats released On Being Asked For A War Poem on Thu Aug 10 1916.

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