Heres a virtual movie of the great World war one soldier poet Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) reading his unforgetable tragic touching poem "Conscious".
CONSCIOUS was by Wilfred Owen? Other poems of hi...
Heres a virtual movie of the great World war one soldier poet Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) reading his unforgetable tragic touching poem "Conscious".
CONSCIOUS was by Wilfred Owen? Other poems of his bear the mark of Siegfried Sassoon, but this perhaps more than most, reminding us as it does of Sassoons THE DEATH BED. CONSCIOUS was written early in 1918, either at Scarborough or Ripon and is about a soldier ill in hospital, though whether or not in France or England we cant tell, or what hes actually suffering from physical wounds, mental illness, or both ?
The reader encounters other unanswerable questions. Even the title may be queried. The man is certainly conscious in a way but not in the fullest sense, and the degree to which he is seems hard to determine. He has just come out of sleep, his fluttering fingers suggesting imperfect bodily control, though his "pull of will" shows his hold on life remains strong. He can pick out various details of his surroundings, but without our knowing his state of mind, how accurately and how significantly we can only guess. Like so many wounded soldiers in the battlefield hospitals of the time death could be sudden "No time to dream, and ask, he knows not what".
Kind Regards
Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2008
Conscious.....
His fingers wake, and flutter up the bed. His eyes come open with a pull of will, Helped by the yellow may-flowers by his head. A blind-cord drawls across the window-sill . . . How smooth the floor of the ward is! what a rug! And who's that talking, somewhere out of sight? Why are they laughing? What's inside that jug? "Nurse! Doctor!" "Yes; all right, all right."
But sudden dusk bewilders all the air -- There seems no time to want a drink of water. Nurse looks so far away. And everywhere Music and roses burnt through crimson slaughter. Cold; cold; he's cold; and yet so hot: And there's no light to see the voices by -- No time to dream, and ask -- he knows not what.
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