Poetry emotional or intellectual
...m he lets the reader know his fears of dying at a young age and not being able to share with the world more then he already has. In the poem "On being asked for a War Poem" by William Butler Yeats, Yeats tells the reader his feelings on being asked by the British government for a war poem. "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." (W.B. Yeats "On being asked for a War Poem") Yeats basically is trying to get across in his poem that he doesn't believe that WWI was a war to celebrate and stating that he wouldn't praise the British government for its excellance in the war. Yeats didn't praise the British for its victory in WWI because of the massacre in Ireland, which the British troops started by open firing on a crowd in the Irish capitol. Yeats is showing his disstress of the whole incedent by choosing not to write a poem for the British government. Instead in his poem he states his feelings about the war. Yeats chooses to not praise the British government. In the poem "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy, he is expressing how he feels about war and how it affected him. He states that war isn't all the glory that it is built up to be. If the reader knows anyone who has been in a war or the reader themselves experienced a war, then they understand Hardy's feelings and may have experienced the same exact event that Hardy's felt. "Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet... I shot him dead because-- Because he was my foe,... You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown." "The Man He Killed" Thomas Hardy In this quote from Hardy's poem, shows how he feels. He basically states the emotions he felt when he had time to consider what he did. He states how this man he killed could have been ...