... diction in favour of sharp and biting colloquialisms. The major poet of the First World War, Wilfred Owen, began writing poetry in the manner of Keats, but his poetry underwent stylistic changes as he toughened and tightened his language under the pressure of traumatic, front-line experience of war. One of his most bitterly ironic poems, Dulce et decorum est, describes ... nationalism, and it was Irish nationalism which first sent Yeats in search of a consistently simpler, popular, and more accessible style. In the final phase of his career, Yeats reconciles elements from both his earlie...

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