The poem I have read and examined is titled An Irish Airman foresees his Death, written by William Butler Yeats. This poem’s public concern is war, and it calls a few different things into question. First of all, the narrator doesn’t fight to guard those he loves “those I guard I do not love” and he doesn’t hate the people he is fighting “Those I fight I do not hate.” many people assume that people who are fighting at war must either hate the opposition or love their country enough to fight for it, but this narrator neither hates his enemies or loves the people he guards. He also doesn’t go to war for glory, which is another common idea that society can push. The narrator of this poem doesn’t believe that his death will bring any good to his country of the war effort at large and believes that his life has little to no meaning.