Poem of the Day: Phil Klay selects ‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’
We don’t really know how to feel about Yeats’ airman, who fights not because of political conviction or patriotism or duty or morality, but a ‘lonely impulse of delight.’
'British Machines Chasing The German Scarlet Scouts,' detail, from 'The People's War Book,' 1919. Via Wikimedia Commons
