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An Irishman Foresees His Death 
I know that I shall meet my fate 
Somewhere among the clouds above; 
 
Those that I fight I do not hate, 
Those that I guard I do not love;
1
My country is Kiltarten
2
Cross, 
My countrymen Kiltarten’s poor, 
No likely end could bring them loss 
Or leave them happier than before. 
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, 
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, 
A lonely impulse of delight 
Drove to this tumult in the clouds; 
I balanced all, brought all to my mind, 
The years to come seemed waste of breath, 
A waste of breath the years behind 
In balance with this life, this death. 
 
“Modernist” Poetry and Prose 
1
. 
Those that I guard I do not love: 
In the World War I Ireland was technically
neutral and was going on struggle for independence from England. But many
Irish volunteered to fight on the English side.
2
 . Kiltarten: 
a village near the estate of the Gregory family. 

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The achievement of modern British literature lies in the development of the short story, new 
movements in poetry, exciting experiments in fiction, and drama worthy of the nation that bred 
Shakespeare.
Modern literature is characterized by great differences from the past in both form and 
content. New rhythms, especially in free verse, were invented.
The development of psychology brought psychological realism into literature: writers 
attempted to show not only what their characters thought but how they thought. The stream-of-
consciousness technique, and various modifications of it, created a new attitude toward writing and 
reading.
The subject matter of literature changed too. With the shocks of the wars, technological 
advances, and greater social freedom, writers realized that they could and should write about 
anything. No subject was too dignified or indignified, too familiar or remote, to appear in a modern 
poem or novel. 
The revolution in poetry had its counterpart in fiction. The novelists of the eighteenth and 
nineteenth centuries had written within a defined social context to an audience that shared similar 
values and beliefs. Modernist writers perceived human beings as living in private worlds and 
therefore took as their task the illumination of individual experience. Novelists like James Joyce 
and Virginia Woolf attempted to reproduce the authentic character of human subjectivity, the so-
called