Poetry for the Week

    First off, there's this amazing poem, The Rose of Battle, by W.B. Yeats. Fantastic poem, I love it. If you've ever read The Gemma Doyle Trilogy, it's actually featured in the beginning of The Sweet Far Thing, the final installment in the series. Problem is, it's not featured on the poetry website, which is too bad. I was really looking forward to adding it to my notebook. However, there were several other poems of his that I liked too.
   1) A Prayer For My Daughter, a very sweet, very sentimental poem about a parent wishing the best for their daughter throughout her life.
   2) The Player Queen, which is a song that's from an unfinished (and unnamed) play. It's about a mother who, I think, is imagining her son growing up to be a wonderful person, a king of sorts.
   3) Easter 1916, I think this is about describing the poet's emotions concerning the Easter Rising  in Ireland against British rule on Easter, 1916. On a side note, the uprising was apperantly unsuccessful, and most of the Irish republican leaders involved were executed for treason.
    There were some other poems I found on the website as well.
    1) Nothing Gold Can Stay, by Robert Frost. It's about how you have to cherish life, but yet we sometimes just take it for granted. Also referenced in The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton.
   2) Famous, by Naomi Shihab Nye. This was the first time I've read this poem, and I liked it a lot. There's just something about her poetry that makes you think.
   3) Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen. A poem about what fighting in WW2 was really like, mostly centered around the hideous mustard gas used on enemies, and how dying for your fatherland isn't all that it's cracked up to be.