Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOUZEAUCOURT: THE DECEITFUL CALM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How unpurposed, how inconsequential Last Line: That false mildness. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
HOW unpurposed, how inconsequential Seemed those southern lines when in the pallor Of the dying winter First we went there! Grass thin-waving in the wind approached them, Red roofs in the near view feigned survival, Lovely mockers, when we There took over. There war's holiday seemed, nor though at known times Gusts of flame and jingling steel descended On the bare tracks, would you Picture death there. Snow or rime-frost made a solemn silence, Bluish darkness wrapped in dangerous safety; Old hands thought of tidy Living-trenches! There it was, my dears, that I departed, Scarce a plainer traitor ever! There too Many of you soon paid for That false mildness. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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