Poem By: Issac Rosenberg
Issac Rosenberg had fought in the 1st world war. He has the very real experience of the war and the battlefield. It is an anti war poem. The setting is very much clear. The night is dark. The war is over for today. The soldiers are returning back from the battlefield to the army camp. They are fortunate that their lives for today.
Suddenly the soldiers have the feeling of happiness in them despite the horror of war. The happiness is brought about by the song of the larks which are not seen in the sky. Only music has come down. It is equally possible that death could have come down in the place of music in the forms of bombs and explosion. The point is that death can attack the soldiers any time from any corner. The life of the soldiers has been always at risk and danger. At the end of the poem the poet compares the life of the lover whose beloved has the long and black hair. The beloved does not know that a serpent is hiding in her hair. The love goes to kiss the beloved and he is stunned by the serpent. The lover meets and unexpected death.
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