No doubt one of the great poets of the twenty first century one of Ireland's best William Butler Yeats
Amongst the poets of the English language by the literary critics considered as one of the greats
But one of his famous poems A terrible Beauty Is Born a poem that glorifies beauty in death
To me is not true to beauty did Yeats not fight for his last living breath?
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'To me is not true to beauty did Yeats not fight for his last living breath? ' this reminds me of the masterpiece poem by Dylan Thomas, 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' which he wrote when his father was dying, I think people cover the spectrum on this encounter with death, from tgose who fight to the last breath, through to those happy to pass on after a good long life or to escape disease and pain, to the poor lost souls who run to death from unbearable lives to suicide; death will always be a topic thought about and written about a lot and hopefully as it is the last thing I will do in this life I hope to encounter death with peace and acceptence after completing a good life journey.