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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TRENCHES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Scratches in the dirt? / no, that sounds much too nice
Last Line: Squash! And he needs no twice.
Subject(s): World War I; First World War
First Line: Scratches in the dirt? / no, that sounds much too nice
Last Line: Squash! And he needs no twice.
Subject(s): World War I; First World War
Scratches in the dirt?
No, that sounds much too nice.
Oh, far too nice.
Seems, rather, of a Greyback Shirt,
And we're the little lice
Wriggling about in them a week or two,
Till one day, suddenly, from the blue
Something bloody and big will come
Like - watch this fingernail and thumb! --
Squash! and he needs no twice.
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