print email comment close Yeats: An Irish Airman Foresees His Death URL: http://www.bartleby.com/148/3.html Description: This poem, written for wartime, describes the "lonely impulse of delight" shared by pilots, astronauts, and aviation workers everywhere. From Bartleby.com. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Poetry Space shuttles LII Database Information: Record 13599 created by Karen Schneider on 02/02/2003 Last modification on 02/06/2003 Published: 02/02/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13599