August 6, 1916.—Officer previously reported died of wounds, now reported wounded: Graves, Captain R., Royal Welch Fusiliers.)
…but I was dead, an hour or more.
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There is no way we - of the modern generation - can possibly empathise with the sickness that was ww1. This poem gives a hint of horror.
One of the greatest poems of Robert Graves.