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1 Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us ...
2 Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent ...
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These poems would benefit from a human male voice on the audio. Beautiful haunting poem to read.
An excellent piece of war poetry, after going through an analogy of Soviet War Poetry. Loved reading it. Felt frustrated jumping each time over a number before a line.
whew! setting aside the numbers before each line as in a high school textbook (which annoy) —this is a striking and vivid description of war as it was carried on in ww 1. and anyone who hastens to send another into this kind of should read this. and if they still hasten, we might reasonably guess they are incapable of feeling, incapable of compassion. so many excellent phrases here it would make too long a list. -gk
war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy. 13 Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army 14 Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of gray, 15 But nothing happens. war and its terrible loss and futility. tony
Nice presentation with nice theme presented by Wilfred Owen.
'Pause over half-known faces'......such is the tragedy of war!
Beautifully written. It truly confers the war and what it was like.