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When out, on holidays, I feel time wasted and crave for a book.
— Jul 24, 2025 12:09PM
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But poor young Jim, ‘e’s livin’ an’ ‘e’s not;
‘E reckoned ‘e’d five chances, an’ ‘e’s ad;
‘E’s wounded, killed, and pris’ner, all the lot,
The bloody lot all rolled in one. Jim’s mad.
— Jul 26, 2025 06:09AM
‘E reckoned ‘e’d five chances, an’ ‘e’s ad;
‘E’s wounded, killed, and pris’ner, all the lot,
The bloody lot all rolled in one. Jim’s mad.
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Jul 24, 2025 03:31PM
Curious, David, how Owen and Byron both died in and for Greece.
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Owen was killed in action on 4 November 1918 during the crossing of the Sambre–Oise Canal, exactly one week (almost to the hour) before the signing of the Armistice which ended the war, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant the day after his death.
His war poems evoke visually chilling deaths. But not for ‘shock’, but for empathy.
