In Memory of Major Robert Gregory (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Elegy
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, 1910’s, War, Death or dying, World War I, Soldiers, Ireland or Irish people
The Poem
“In Memory of Major Robert Gregory” is William Butler Yeats’s elegy to Robert Gregory, an Irish airman who died in battle during World War I. Written in the first person, it is a poem of twelve stanzas, in octets, which is primarily composed in iambic pentameter but which also includes iambic tetrameter. Gregory was the only son of Lady Augusta Gregory, Yeats’s close colleague for two decades. They worked together as pivotal figures in the Irish Literary Revival and were among the founders of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. Over the years, Yeats had relied upon Lady...
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