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Saturday poem!
Aug. 6th, 2005 10:24 pmI was going to do something by Shelley or Keats... but the Romantic movement was never my thing. "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" Suck it up, already, Percy. The wind? It's not going to answer you.
So instead you're going to get a Siegfried Sassoon poem. Sassoon is best known as a war poet, in the vein of Wilfred Owen ("Anthem for Doomed Youth"); however, this poem is about joy. A war poem, yes, but about the end of the war and soldiers going home (at least, I think so :p I'm always wary of interpreting poetry, because I've spent so long completely making it up in English classes at various institutions of education). 'Sassoon describes the poem as "essentially an expression of release, and [that it] signified a thankfulness for liberation from the war years [...]" He says that the singing which would 'never be done' was the Social Revolution which he believed to be at hand.' (From autobiography Siegfried's Journey, p 140)
Here is ( Everyone Sang )
So instead you're going to get a Siegfried Sassoon poem. Sassoon is best known as a war poet, in the vein of Wilfred Owen ("Anthem for Doomed Youth"); however, this poem is about joy. A war poem, yes, but about the end of the war and soldiers going home (at least, I think so :p I'm always wary of interpreting poetry, because I've spent so long completely making it up in English classes at various institutions of education). 'Sassoon describes the poem as "essentially an expression of release, and [that it] signified a thankfulness for liberation from the war years [...]" He says that the singing which would 'never be done' was the Social Revolution which he believed to be at hand.' (From autobiography Siegfried's Journey, p 140)
Here is ( Everyone Sang )
