Death Up Above
The most improbable way of dying, is not knowing where the deathblow came from. To fight for what is right is not always wrong; to fight for something wrong is not always right. But to fulfill your duties as a soldier for your country is always right. Throughout our lives, each and every one of us have been handed a daunting task in which we do not take lightly. In Yeat’s poem, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, Yeats uses imagery to propel his words through each of us to say that pilots fly from within, and not from any outside influence. Yeats writes the poem as though he is the aviator, about to meet his demise. The first two lines prepare the reader for what lies ahead; the pilot will die. Yeats doesn't stay with that point because he has more important thoughts to convey, so he moves on to establish the pilot's motives. The pilot chose to fly and fight in the war, not because he hates the Imperial Germans, or because he loved his country; and he didn't do it for fame or fortune. The pilot flew for one reason only; the sheer joy of flying. With the line, "I balanced all, brought all to mind," Yeats begins to tell the reader what Major Gregory has to tell us about life and death. In it, Yeats is not mer
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Approximate Word count = 867
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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