Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A RENASCENCE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White flabbiness goes brown and lean, dumpling arms are now brass bars Last Line: Poetry is born again. Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
White flabbiness goes brown and lean, Dumpling arms are now brass bars, They've learnt to suffer and live clean, And to think below the stars. They've steeled a tender, girlish heart, Tempered it with a man's pride, Learning to play the butcher's part Though the woman screams inside -- Learning to leap the parapet, Face the open, rush, and then To stab with the stark bayonet, Side by side with fighting men. On Achi Baba's rock their bones Whiten, and on Flanders' plain, But of their travailings and groans Poetry is born again. | 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 COUNTING THE BEATS by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES |
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