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Originally Posted by Felicity
Never read this poem before. I don't find it particularly morbid and it's certainly obvious this was a man well acquainted with the horrors of war.
The imagery is wonderful. He must have spent a long time honing alliteration, similes, metaphors and thinking of how to paint a picture with the words he used.
I loved the verse about the rain .......
"Rain—he could hear it rustling through the dark;"
Never heard the sound of rain described as "rustling". But it's kind of apt. It does quite sound like that at times. 
Also loved .... "silence heaped round him".
Very descriptive poem of what this soldier suffered and felt the few minutes before death became reality. |
I like how it seems to point to the vicious cycle...death chose him, and then at the end, the "thudding of the guns", and presumably death is off to choose another victim.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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