sentences:  The poem's original title, "To a friend who has asked me to sign his manifesto to the neutral nations," appears, in the words of Jim Haughey, to have a "toysome evasiveness" regarding the politics surrounding the war.Peter McDonald suggests that the changes in the poem's title reflects Yeats's changing political positions from the beginning of the war until its end in 1919 when Yeats publishes "The Wild Swans at Coole".Although there are minute variations in the wording of the version published in "The Book of the Homeless" and the one found in "The Wild Swans at Coole", the poem's overall form remained the same even as the title changed.