"Politics" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written on May 24, 1938. It was written during the time of the Spanish Civil War as well as during the pre-war period of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in Germany .The poem hints at the political situations of Rome (or Italy), Russia, and Spain, but ultimately discusses topics more relevant to private human interaction rather than public, or political situations. The poem never mentions Germany or Hitler, ...
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"Politics" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written on May 24, 1938. It was written during the time of the Spanish Civil War as well as during the pre-war period of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in Germany .The poem hints at the political situations of Rome (or Italy), Russia, and Spain, but ultimately discusses topics more relevant to private human interaction rather than public, or political situations. The poem never mentions Germany or Hitler, despite the fact that the "war and war's alarms" surrounding the poem's creation arose from fears of Germany's aggression rather than Italy's, Russia's, or Spain's. Many versions of the text exist: the original typescript of May 1938, the first typescript with hand-written corrections dated August 12, 1938, as well as a final "Coole Edition" of the poem dated June 29,1939, which was not published until it was included in Last Poems in 1939. Yeats intended for the poem to be printed last in the collection, as an envoi to "The Circus Animals'...
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