Fate in an Irish Airman Foresees His Death by Williams Bulter Yates

Critical Analysis: An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
There is no way fate, fate will get its turn on he/she and there is nothing that can be done to avoid it. This isn’t an infamous cop pursuit where the villain escapes, but more like the Black Death were no one escapes. Horrible, yes, but fate is real, and instead of trembling on it he/she needs to grab fate by the horns and make it special. The poem “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” explains fate as not only something the Irishmen can’t escape, but something he sees as a desire, but only if he has a sense of balance for himself. Through irony and imagery Williams Butler Yeats suggests, it is not a question of desire that grabs our actions, but the question of feeling balance. (Yeats)
Throughout the entire poem Yeats continues to relate everything to a balance and irony. In the beginning Yeats explains the irony the Irish airman is feeling, “Those that I fight I do not hate (Line 3)/Those that I guard I do not love, (Line 4)” Going into depth Yeats wants the reader to feel what the airman is feeling. How ironic, he is fighting those for the reason one would not believe, as well as guarding those for the reasons one would not think. In most cases, one cares and loves those whom he/she protects, as well as hating those whom he or she fights against, but not this individual, he has different reasoning’s why he fights and guards’ people. Yeats’ main focus for the these two lines were to get the reader to most importantly understand the irony the character feels, as well as the emotionless attitude the Irishman is feeling.
“My country is Kiltartan Cross (Line 5)/My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor (Line 6),” Yeats states every man has a country, the Irishman’s obviously being Kiltar...

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... will justify his sense of balance.
William Butler Yeats writes this poem for the sole purpose of balance. Throughout the entire poem Yeats uses both physical and imagery balance to give the reader the full understanding of balance through his eyes. His imagery includes all the irony he uses in his lines like “Those that I fight I do not hate (Line 3)/Those that I guard I do not love (Line 4),” the topic of past and future he writes about it in the end of his poem, and the Irish airman’s emotional balance. Example of physical balance is were Yeats used couplets scheme of writing and he even wrote balance in his poem a couple of times which allows the reader to see it physically. In other words Yeats wants the reader to find something that will allow them to be balanced when he/she passes, whether it be in the past or future, or death itself, one must find balance.