. . The years to come seemed waste of breadth,/ A waste of breadth the years behind/ In balance with this life, this death.” (322). The soldier knows that once he gets into the plane there is no turning back. He knows he will die, and nothing can stop him. He looks back on his life and the memories, and then forward to his future and neither are worth living for, just to die for country, knowing death is coming quick. Yeats describes destiny rightly in his poem.The aspects of war have many different affects on poets as seen in the previous writing. War is a very inspirational subject and leads poets to write like they have never written before. It enables them to express themselves using words that flow in what seems like a natural order. The theme that a poet decides to use is what gives the poem substance and life, but it is what the author does not blatantly say that gives the poem meaning. A poet lets others understand what people really imagine about the world and different views from different people. ...
