Brothers Poem homecoming stories told in the "Odyssey". The lost initial stanza or stanzas of the poem have also been the subject of scholarly attention, with various reconstructions being put forward. In 2014, five fragments of papyrus, containing the remains of nine separate poems by Sappho – three previously unknown – were published by Dirk Obbink, Simon Burris, and Jeffrey Fish. The most impressive of these was the newly discovered Brothers Poem, which survives on "P. Sapph. Obbink", a piece of a critical edition of Book I of Sappho's poetry. The Brothers Poem is followed on the fragment by nine lines of
On being asked for a War Poem poem's overall form remained the same even as the title changed. In the first two lines of the poem, Yeats states that it is better for a "poet to keep his mouth shut" than to enter into debates about wars and politics, feeling that a poet should speak only about traditional lyric subjects and leave the war to soldiers and politicians. Tim Kendall, in "The Oxford handbook of British and Irish war poetry", suggests that Yeats's alternatives to the subject of war stated in lines 5-6, are the more traditional subjects of poetry which the poet finds suitable material, yet