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 dawn bellamy And the coward cruel brute Shapingus in his image.^18 With its allusion to Genesis 1:26–27, the end of this sta ...

‘othershavecomebeforeyou’  Today he struck a final gesture, Armsakimbo against the sky, Crucified on a cross of fire With all ...

 dawn bellamy scant space in Douglas’s poetry for any consideration of the regenerative power ofsacrificial offerings. Still, ...

‘others have come before you’  Douglas nevertheless keeps the iconography as a peripheral feature in ‘Landscape withFigures 1 ...

 dawn bellamy in the poetry of the Second World War. ‘No one turning from the poetry of theSecond War back to that of the Fir ...

‘othershavecomebeforeyou’  Lewis’s poetry from India makes clear that women were part of the soldiers’ environment;a man’s ga ...

 dawn bellamy are separated while taking on their new, and temporary, identities as soldiers. Sincethe women his personae enc ...

‘others have come before you’  more mundane things that he is able to regain his self-control. In comparison with Lewis’spers ...

 dawn bellamy physical in Second World War poetry, as identified by Woods, means that images ofthe body occur less frequently ...

‘others have come before you’  The effect of the War on this dead soldier’s relationship with his lover, a reminder ofa First ...

 dawn bellamy dimension to his use of the Great War’s mythology. The vastly different nature of theconflict meant that the so ...

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 roderick watson Fraser’s early poems do reflect something of this spirit, showing the influence of Eliotand Auden in their r ...

‘death’s proletariat’  and women caught up in world events that would bring troops from Canada, Australia,South Africa, India ...

 roderick watson Two’.^10 Theanthologist Brian Gardner has also commented on a shift of emphasis in the 1940s towards a wider ...

‘death’s proletariat’  for unit wall newspapers, service magazines and poetry. The creative bug was born. Thewriting skill de ...

 roderick watson chatter in an exile’s town’.^15 Cairowas just such a town, and poems like ‘The Streets of Cairo’, ‘Egypt’, ‘ ...

‘death’s proletariat’  Slowly tawny, slowly ashy, the desert and the day suddenlygulp the plum of darkness. Rays of indigo sp ...

 roderick watson For what better than death in battle (Thesick voice said in the belly, ‘What better than death in battle?’) ...

‘death’s proletariat’  grim, of army life: ‘We get gobbets of meat, and veg to eat|Thattaste like sweaty socks,|And when we s ...