All winter long you listened for the boom
Of distant cannon wheeled into their place.
Sometimes outside beneath a bombers’ moon
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(B) The effect of this contrast is striking: at once balanced and engaged; detached but acutely aware of sensual satisfactions. The style owes much to the artistic ethos of Yvor Winters,
(A) ABOUT THE POET IN HIS BIO: Very important to know this: That 'physical world' encompasses and love, which are refracted through his restrained and lapidary lines..
CONGRATULATIONS to the family of the late great Poet, this poem being chosen as The Classic Poem Of The Day!
THREE: Beautiful end rhymes, a cynical statement about the war at the time, nine stanzas long, but every word has been weighed and weighed. The beautiful cynicism shines here.
TWO: does the German Laura really exist? Or is this poem a statement by the poet himself? Enjoyed this sad poem about the war, an indictment of the war itself.
ONE: the ongoing war expressed and addressed to the stoic Laura, even Venice is mentioned because it slowly sinks further and further and will eventually disappear,
A beautiful creation, well conceived and nicely put together
The darkest days during the war++++++++++++++++ Thanks for sharing++++++++++
In the midst of tragedy to will the mind to become without meaning or place, and therein to find peace when all else is war. Beautifully crafted poetry. Writing at a level to which we should all aspire.
nice poem of sad memories and sad thoughts of real events during the war.
All winter long! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
(C) under whom Bowers studied at Stanford, but his achievement far surpasses that of his mentor, and his other students, such as J. V. Cunningham. He often wrote in rhyme, but also produced some of the finest blank verse in the English language