I found him in the guard-room at the Base.
From the blind darkness I had heard his crying
And blundered in. With puzzled, patient face
A sergeant watched him; it was no good trying
To stop it; for he howled and beat his chest.
And, all because his brother had gone west,
Raved at the bleeding war; his rampant grief
Moaned, shouted, sobbed, and choked, while he was kneeling
Half-naked on the floor. In my belief
Such men have lost all patriotic feeling.
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This poem uses an ABAB rhyming scheme. It uses enjambement in all the lines, except the 1st, 5th and 10th lines. The poem is only one stanza.. The poem is written from another soldiers point of view.
ReplyDeleteThe poet is writing about a traumatized soldier, who has lost his brother in the war "his brother has gone west" this could imply that his brother was on the western front, his brother had dies, and the other brother didn't go with him.
The poem uses personification "Blind darkness" "Bleeding war".
Henry Wooles, Dan Atlee, Nathan Giles-Donovan.
'Gone West' is itself a euphemism for 'died'. Mz
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