Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PREMATURE REJOICING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's that over there? Last Line: That's where the difficulty is, over there. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
WHAT'S that over there? Thiepval Wood. Take a steady look at it; it'll do you good. Here, these glasses will help you. See any flowers? There sleeps Titania (correct -- the Wood is ours); There sleeps Titania in a deep dugout, Waking, she wonders what all the din's about, And smiles through her tears, and looks ahead ten years, And sees her Wood again, and her usual Grenadiers, All in green, Music in the moon; The burnt rubbish you've just seen Won't beat the Fairy Queen; All the same, it's a shade too soon For you to scribble rhymes In your army book About those times; Take another look; That's where the difficulty is, over there. | 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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