Isaac Rosenberg "Break of Day in the Trenches" Poem animation

Heres a virtual movie of the World war one British soldier poet Isaac Rosenberg reading his great poem "Break of Day in the Trenches" This poem was written in 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg in a letter to his
friend, Eddie Marsh. In the letter, he described his poem as
something "I wrote in the trenches, which is surely as simple as
ordinary talk".

Isaac Rosenberg (25 November 1890 -- 1 April 1918) was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets. His "Poems from the Trenches" are recognised as some of the most outstanding written during the First World War.

Kind Regards

Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2011

Break of Day in the Trenches.............

The darkness crumbles away
It is the same old druid Time as ever,
Only a live thing leaps my hand,
A queer sardonic rat,
As I pull the parapet's poppy
To stick behind my ear.
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
Your cosmopolitan sympathies,
Now you have touched this English hand
You will do the same to a German
Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure
To cross the sleeping green between.
It seems you inwardly grin as you pass
Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,
Less chanced than you for life,
Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of France.
What do you see in our eyes
At the shrieking iron and flame
Hurled through still heavens?
What quaver -what heart aghast?
Poppies whose roots are in men's veins
Drop, and are ever dropping;
But mine in my ear is safe,
Just a little white with the dust.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• poem
• animation
• isaac
• rosenberg
• wilfred
• owen
• sassoon
• john
• mccrae
• alan
• seeger
• rudyard
• kipling
• poetry
• poet
• poesie
• poeme
• gedichte