The last poem Yeats wrote. At the ripe old age of 73, he shows little optimism or even care for the future, and seems more concerned with nostalgia for his younger days, when he wrote somewhat Pastoral poems like The Lake Isle of Innisfree or Who goes with Fergus. Though, Yeats' focus on his own int...
"In our time the destiny of man presents its meanings in
political terms" - Thomas Mann
How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms!
William Butler Yeats released Politics on Sun Jan 01 1939.