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the fury and the mire  example, an illustration of a man choking to death on poison gas; that followed by amoralitas,a moral ...

 jonstallworthy In the clean hospital bed, my eyes were so heavy Sleepeasily blotted out one ugly picture, A wounded militiam ...

the fury and the mire  the irrational, grotesque images I had accumulatedduring the war; and imposing order on those images e ...

 jonstallworthy Mother’s consolation that her son had been ‘so brave’, and prepares for the chilling ironyof the poem’s concl ...

the fury and the mire  the baby (so neatly foreshadowed in his orders) for a gun; or that ‘It kind of cracked [him]up’. Certa ...

 jonstallworthy Thomas Hardy did not see the Boer War burial party ‘throw in Drummer Hodge, torest|Uncoffined—just as found’, ...

the fury and the mire  true witness to the impact of the war on America, but one pretending to first-hand witnessof combat in ...

 jonstallworthy Ghosts from the ovens, sifting through crisp air, Andsettled upon his eyes in a black soot.^15 There can be n ...

the fury and the mire  As with the war poems of earlier wars, many of Balaban’s best were written after theguns had fallen si ...

 jonstallworthy Swear by the locust, by dragonflies on ferns, bythe minnow’s flash, the tremble of a breast, by the new earth ...

the fury and the mire  Each diner was attended by one of the other ranks Whirlinga table-napkin to keep off the flies. It was ...

 jonstallworthy and terror; also, I suggest, to a measure of fury. And just as we go to a performance ofShakespeare’sKing Lea ...

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 gareth reeves Seamus Heaney’s phrase,^1 thevery conflict to be appeased and laid to rest—or into a fearsome concoction of so ...

‘this is plenty. this is more than enough’  In the words of Michael Schmidt, Douglas ‘extended poetry into one of the extreme ...

 gareth reeves that not to express emotion is to run the danger of negating it: ‘How dare we now beanything but numb?’ Afterm ...

‘this is plenty. this is more than enough’  All this, one may feel with some justification, is mere poetic politics, one fash ...