|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REMORSE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit
Last Line: Of dying heroes and their deathless deeds.'
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War
First Line: Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit
Last Line: Of dying heroes and their deathless deeds.'
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War
LOST in the swamp and welter of the pit,
He flounders off the duck-boards; only he knows
Each flash and spouting crash, -- each instant lit
When gloom reveals the streaming rain. He goes
Heavily, blindly on. And, while he blunders,
'Could anything be worse than this?' -- he wonders,
Remembering how he saw those Germans run,
Screaming for mercy among the stumps of trees:
Green-faced, they dodged and darted: there was one
Livid with terror, clutching at his knees...
Our chaps were sticking 'em like pigs ... 'O hell!'
He thought -- 'there's things in war one dare not tell
Poor father sitting safe at home, who reads
Of dying heroes and their deathless deeds.'
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