The War Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen

Author:Wilfred Owen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448181339
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

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Cp. Wordsworth, ‘Character of the Happy Warrior’, ll. 1–2: ‘Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he / That every man in arms should wish to be?’

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cobbled with their brothers: Cp. WO to MO, ?25 March 1918: ‘They are dying again at Beaumont Hamel, which already in 1916 was cobbled with skulls’ (CL, 542).

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fooling: Cp. ‘Six O’clock in Princes Street’, l. 5: ‘Neither should I go fooling over clouds.’

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gaps for filling: DH notes that ‘The gaps had been illustrated on a number of recruiting posters. “Fill up the Ranks!” was a familiar slogan; one poster shows a long line of men in which a single empty space is filled by a billboard marked “This space is Reserved for a Fit Man”. The repeated use of the word “happy” in the … poem, to describe the soldier who has been rendered “insensible to war” by war experience, is reminiscent of another poster which shows a smiling Tommy and the caption, “He’s happy and satisfied / Are You?”.’ (‘Some Contemporary Allusions in Poems by Rosenberg, Owen and Sassoon’, N&Q, n.s., xxvi, no. 4 [August 1979], 333)

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