Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Trumpet Call Comments

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Trumpeter, sound for the last Crusade!
Sound for the fire of the red-cross kings,
Sound for the passion, the splendour, the pity
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Alfred Noyes
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Bekah 19 January 2019

This was a WWI poem. As in The Searchlights, Noyes believed the modernist radical nationalism (e.g. General Friedrich von Bernhardi) advocated by Germany in the first world war was a form of destructive nihilism that England must combat both within and without.

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Rose Wilder 14 April 2013

Another good name for this poem might be The Last Crusade.

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