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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JANUARY FULL MOON, YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vantaged snow on the gray pilasters Last Line: To someone crunching through the frozen snows. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War | |||
VANTAGED snow on the gray pilasters Gleams to the sight so wan and ghostly; The wolfish shadows in the eerie places Sprawl in the mist-light. Sharp-fanged searches the frost, and shackles The sleeping water in broken cellars, And calm and fierce the witch-moon watches, Curious of evil. Flares from the horse-shoe of trenches beckon, Momently soaring and sinking, and often Peer through the naked fire-swept windows Mocking the fallen. Quiet, uneasily quiet -- the guns hushed, Scarcely a rifle-shot cracks through the salient, Only the Cloth Hall sentry's challenge To someone crunching through the frozen snows. | 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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