Have you forgotten yet?...
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
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ree, im not happy that i have to do this for school grr this makes me angery
Read, and read, .. and read again. From the very first stanza I turned the page to find at school, to the current day (33yrs later) hugely influential in making poetry meaningful and resonant. Among the elite in conjuring images and thoughts in the mind as he himself thought and wrote them. Should forever remain part of curriculum and a poet to confide in when defining for yourself the nature of the human soul. RIP for your words shall resound hereafter.
I love looking at these war poems. They make one remember those who served them and those who need honored by us. I'm a cadet. This stuff is important.
This poem is going to haunt me for a long long time! Powerful. Heart-breaking. Wise. And it hurts in that way that truth has of hurting. 10+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Raw and emotional, this poem really hits home, and shows the brutal and viscous cycle that is war.
powerfull, first hand account of the futility of war, very powerfull.Harry Patch didn't forget and about time the leaders of the world pay attention.
What a waste that war was over 700,000 British lives lost I don't know the final total for all countries involved. But over 700,000 lives. Lives that could have been. A tragic poem that really hits home. And Siegfried Sassoon survived the war.