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THE TROOP SHIP by ISAAC ROSENBERG

Poet Analysis

First Line: GROTESQUE AND QUEERLY HUDDLED
Last Line: ALE ON YOUR FACE.
Subject(s): SOLDIERS' WRITINGS; WORLD WAR I; FIRST WORLD WAR;
Grotesque and queerly huddled
Contortionists to twist
The sleepy soul to a sleep,
We lie all sorts of ways
And cannot sleep.
The wet wind is so cold,
And the lurching men so careless,
That, should you drop to a doze,
Winds' fumble or men's feet
Ale on your face.




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