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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POLITICS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Recitation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I, that girl standing there Last Line: And held her in my arms! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love; Politics & Government | |||
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! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE JULY IN WASHINGTON by ROBERT LOWELL FIFTY APRIL YEARS by KHALED MATTAWA FOUR POEMS ABOUT JAMAICA: 3. A HAIRPIN TURN ABOVE READING, JAMAICA by WILLIAM MATTHEWS A FOREIGN COUNTRY by JOSEPHINE MILES ARS POETICA by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA CARMEN BOMBA: POET by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES') by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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