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the chittering of rehydrating grasses as they blow in the wind pushing invisibly above - There Will be no Stay of Execution at allpoetry
he savors his escape
the sun-blind sleep of Olympic afternoon - Stump at allpoetry
Near the pink-tiled rim of the pond, opposite the sometimes cascade over scum-covered rock,
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on About new snow by Kobayashi Issa, on December 7, 2005How is it that this is labeled as being written in 1894, when his biography here says he died in the 1820's?
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on Arms And The Boy by Wilfred Owen, on December 4, 2005Ah, this seems to be an earlier sort of precursor to the ideas I saw in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter House 5, that those who experience war are less apt to be so fanatically in favor of it as those political pundits who romanticize war and the soldier.
I feel that this poem was well expressed, for what it's worth. Obviously, Wilfred Owens isn't going to be coming back to revise it...
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on A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers) by Wilfred Owen, on December 4, 2005Shit. I could see how this sort of thing would turn around the romantic notions of poetry that existed before WW1. My literature anthology just mentioned this chap, so I figured on checking him out. It makes the soul hurt (though perhaps I shouldn't say that) to think of being reduced to such. I had my own personality reduced to pretty much stock just by going to boot camp, so I can't even imagine what the terror of trench warfare would do to make you envy a base animal, even a plant it's unaware existence.
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on Over the Misty Mountains Cold by J R R Tolkien, on September 28, 2005Tolkien's mythos is beautiful and expansive. This poem is a nice sampling.
