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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ESCAPE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are four officers, this message says Last Line: Find mr. Wrestman. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War | |||
A Colonel: THERE are four officers, this message says, Lying all dead at Mesnil. One shell pitched clean amongst'em at the foot Of Jacob's Ladder. They're all Sussex men. I fear poor Flood and Warne were of that party. And the Brigade wants them identified ... A Mind: Now God befriend me, The next word not send me To view those ravished trunks And hips and blackened hunks. A Colonel: No, not you, Bunny, you've just now come down. I've something else for you. Orderly! (Sir!) Find Mr. Wrestman. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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