Up The Line To Death

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

I decided a while ago to make icons for WWI poetry, I did and promptly lost the disk I put them on. However, this morning I found it and the rest, as they say, is history. I am intending to make some more at some point, but spending all one's time studying war poetry doesn't put one in the jolliest of moods, so I may wait a while.

I have put the a list of the names of the authors and the poems each icon was derived from at the bottom, plus if they were killed in action. If you want to know the whole poem for any and can't/don't want to find it, let me know and I'll send you a link or type it up for you.

Comments, tips, and credit would all be lovely if you can be bothered, nevermind, read the quotes.

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1 - Two Fusiliers by Robert Graves
2 - A Quote from Wilfred Owen
3 - In Flanders Fields by John McRae
4 - Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon
5 - August, 1918 by Maurice Baring.
6 - Concert Party: Busserboon by Edmund Blunden
7 - Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
8 - A Dirge Of Victory - Lord Dunsany
9 - Recruiting by E.A.Mackintosh
10- In Flanders Fields by John McRae
11- To My Darling Daughter Betty by T.M.Kettle
12- Home Thoughts In Laventied by E.W.Tennant
13- After The Battle by A.P.Herbert
14&15 - Beaucort Revisited by A.P.Herbert
16&17 - Here Lie We Dead by A.E.Housman
18&19 - Common Form by Ruyard Kipling
20&21 - Kismet by R.B.Marriott-Watson
22 - Going Into The Line by Max Plowman
23 - See #2
24 - Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
25 - Exposure by Wilfred Owen
26 - The Sentry by Wilfred Owen
27 - Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
28 - Now To Be Still And Rest by P.H.B.Lyon
29 - Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg
30 - Attack! by Siegfried Sassoon
31 - See #4
32 - Died of Wounds by Siegfried Sassoon
33 - The Dugout by Siegfried Sassoon
34 - The Rear Guard by Siefried Sassoon
35 - To Any Dead Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
36 - Trench Duty by Siegfried Sassoon
37 - See #11
38 - This Generation by Osbert Sitwell
39 - Envoi from The Song Is Theirs by Wyn Griffith

Wilfred Owen was killed in action, 1918.
John McRae died in Base Hospital, 1918.
EA Mackintosh died October 1917 at Cambrai.
TM Kettle died Sept 8th, 1916, four days after completing the poem 'To My Darling Daughter Betty'.
EW Tennant died Sept 1916, aged 19yrs.
Ruyard Kipling's son was killed in action 1915, Kipling spent the rest of his life unsuccessfully trying to locate his son's body.
RB Marriott-Watson killed in action March, 1918.
Isaac Rosenberg was killed in action April, 1918.



Cross-posted to obsessive_icons.

Comments

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Goodness! Thank you so much, that's so lovely to hear, I'm so glad you like them.

[caffyolay.livejournal.com]

These are so beautiful. Have taken The Pity of War and will credit.

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Thank-you, it's very nice to hear.

[aswanargent.livejournal.com]

These are wonderful. I'm taking the poppies and will credit.

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Thank-you, I'm glad you like them.

[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

Lovely, and so poignant. I've taken #24. Thank you.

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Thank-you, that's one of my favourites too.

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

These are all lovely; I'm not quite sure which ones I'm taking yet, but I will certainly credit when I use them. :)

And your timing could not be better--I'm going to write my thesis on homosocial expression in war-time, so the list of poets at the end is awesome. :D *goes off to research them all*

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Thank-you, I'm glad you like them, and it's nice to be a help, your thesis sounds like something I'd be interested in. Are you going to post it on your journal when you've finished it?

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

Are you going to post it on your journal when you've finished it?

I'll definitely put up bits and pieces; if the final product is decent, I'll probably post it, too. But it won't be done until spring, probably.

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

I don't have any links and I'm afraid, that poem is in many WWI anthologies, but I've never found any other work by him. However, since I'm told he was only 21 when he died, perhaps that's not surprising.

The poem in full is

Opal fires in the Western sky
(For that which is written must ever be),
And a bullet comes droning, whining by,
To the heart of a sentry close to me.

For some go early, and some go late
(A dying soul on the evening air)
And who is there that believes in Fate
As a soul goes out in the sunset flare?

If you're interested in a Lost Generation anthologies with some of the more obscure poets as well as the well known ones, 'Up The Line To Death' published by Methuen is good.

[foxeddc.livejournal.com]

This Navy wife is appreciative of your work. Swiping a few, but will credit. Thanks.

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I very happy you like them.

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm happy you like them.

[fionabhair.livejournal.com]

Lovely...I took the "Flanders Fields" one, and will credit with use =)

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you like them!

[athene-632.livejournal.com]

You've read Regeneration (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140123083/qid=1125048517/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_11_2/026-7942820-5715639), I bet?

Taking #33, thanks.

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Amazingly, I haven't, but you can bet I'm going to. Have you read Testament of Youth by Vera Britain? If not, I sincerely recommend it, it's beautiful.

[sovevuni.livejournal.com]

Haven't taken any. But I love the idea in general.

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Thank-you.

[ms-cucumber.livejournal.com]

These are really nice, but can I just say I find the text in 1 & 35 hard to read?

[anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com]

Thank-you.

It was kind of intentional on #35, but I'll have to think about #1. Thanks.