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Darryl Friesen
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I want to know what happened to Lewis between Christmas 1915 and Easter 1916! 😳 Because his Christmas poems were relatively cozy and cheery, but these Easter poems are savagely cynical and hopeless… 🫣
— Nov 28, 2025 07:19AM
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Darryl Friesen
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Finished Part II of this collection, up to the end of 1919, which is mostly made up of poems from WWI, including the published collection, “Spirits in Bondage”. Unrelentingly dark and despairing, with only moments and glimmers of brilliance and hope scattered throughout. But beautiful, beautiful writing.
— Dec 23, 2025 08:07AM
Darryl Friesen
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“The Ass” (pub. 1919) is wonderful!
“Atoms dead could never thus
Stir the human heart of us
Unless the beauty that we see
The veil of endless beauty be,
Filled full of spirits that have trod
Far hence along the heavenly sod
And seen the bright footprints of God.”
~from “Song” (May 1918)
— Dec 19, 2025 06:59AM
“Atoms dead could never thus
Stir the human heart of us
Unless the beauty that we see
The veil of endless beauty be,
Filled full of spirits that have trod
Far hence along the heavenly sod
And seen the bright footprints of God.”
~from “Song” (May 1918)
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Nov 28, 2025 07:52AM
Oh goodness! Was he in the war yet?
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That was my first thought, but I’m honestly not sure about the dates when he was on the front.
