The Rise and Fall of Meter
148 chapter 5 shed / Alike immortalize the dead” (219). Fussell’s dismissal of Cowper’s meter misses the way that Blunden’s met ...
the trauma of meter 149 English Poetry provided comfort for soldiers on the front, they neglected to discuss how soldier-poets h ...
150 chapter 5 Ford’s fictional account renders all the more illuminating the fact that in addition to poetry anthologies, Wilfre ...
the trauma of meter 151 multitude of their sins. . . . I still find great comfort in scribbling ; but lately I am deadening to ...
152 chapter 5 “low crooning,” a meaningless comfort. His poem is made of “weird reveries” and the metrical “throb” of his own co ...
the trauma of meter 153 and quoting this line to his mother: “If any man despairs of becoming a Poet, let him carry his pack and ...
154 chapter 5 My rhymes no longer stand arrayed Like Prussian soldiers on parade 15 That march, Stiff as starch, Foot to foot, B ...
the trauma of meter 155 yet Graves, himself a captain, participates in this “academic extravaganza” in his loosely formed “free ...
156 chapter 5 “[t]hat night we marched back again. . . . The men were singing. Being mostly from the Midlands, they sang comic s ...
the trauma of meter 157 appears again in the wake of inconsolability through the popular First World War marching song, “We’re H ...
158 chapter 5 Tobacco’s pleasant, firelight’s good Poetry makes both better. Clay is wet and so is mud, 15 Winter rains are wett ...
the trauma of meter 159 expression in general due to their education, but also understood that their upbringing formed part of a ...
160 chapter 5 This ironic narration shows the harm caused by repression, despite the belief that “it’s bad to think of war.” The ...
the trauma of meter 161 the listening doctor, experiences are involuntarily “reenacted” for the now livid audience of the dead a ...
162 chapter 5 detachment from both time and space. His thoughts cannot move forward, nor can his speech. The patient must be ree ...
the trauma of meter 163 On March 22, 1917 Owen quoted from memory a long passage from Eliza- beth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leig ...
164 chapter 5 particular letter from the casualty clearing station in straight lines following standard issue ruled paper, after ...
the trauma of meter 165 demonstrates Owen’s consideration of a possible literary, or heroic, fu- ture—a perpetuation of life lik ...
166 chapter 5 The most notable activity Brock prescribed for Owen was the editorship of The Hydra. Most hospitals that treated s ...
Figure 4. Cartoon of Captain Rivers, anonymous, published in The Hydra on Sep- tember 15, 1917. Copyright Jon Stallworthy, Wilfr ...
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