Richard Aldington by Vivien Whelpton

Author:Vivien Whelpton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Imagist, poet, war novel, survivor's guilt, twentieth century, H.D., First World War, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, literary, London, Death of a Hero, Richard Aldington
Publisher: The Lutterworth Press
Published: 2014-01-21T16:00:00+00:00

One night I shall break these thongs

And kill, kill, kill in sharp revenge.

Then, he tells us, he will escape: ‘to the unploughed lands no foot oppresses’. Norman Gates considered this one of Aldington’s finest poems, since it ‘integrates the idea and symbol so well’ and ‘the emotion that the poem develops is valid both on the level of the faun and on the level of the poet.’24 However, for many readers the poem may seem misanthropic, its voice petulant, the conceit too precious to engage with the devastating effects of the war.

More interesting, although a less ‘finished’ work (and never published by Aldington), is ‘Deaths of Common Men’, written in the late summer of 1918, a further attempt at the reflective mode of ‘Reverie’, ‘A Village’ or ‘Apathy’.25 As in the latter poem, Aldington treats the actualities of the war in language that is shocking:

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