Soldiers' Poems: Isaac Rosenberg's (British) Research Proposal

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"Red fangs have torn His face. / God's blood is shed."

In contrast, the German soldier August Stramm presents words in rapid-fire succession in his poem "War grave." The poem's list is designed to hit the reader like a round of gunfire. Instead of the crafted image of the snow that begins Rosenberg's poem, Stramm merely says: "Flowers impudent/Dust shyly./Flare/Water/Glast/Forgotten." The impudent flowers mock the sacrifice of the men who lie amongst the dust. There is a flare in the background, the flowers are watered by rain, and time goes on as men are forgotten.

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Not a single wasted word exists in this tribute to the waste of young life.

Ideologically, the great difference between Rosenberg's conventional ode to the dead and Stramm's symbolic work is the presence of God: in Rosenberg's poem, God is a palpable presence: "He mourns from His lone place/His children dead." For Stramm, there is no mention of the divine presence either mourning or honoring the dead, and the final word of another of his poems about the war entitled "Attack" is simply: "Nothing."

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