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25-05-2009, 22:47 #1Senior Member
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BBC on Wilfred Owen
Just watched this on the I player http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...embrance_Tale/
Well worth watching - BBC at their best.
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31-05-2009, 17:34 #2Senior Member
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Re: BBC on Wilfred Owen
Excellent programme FB; and quite heartwrenching story.
Originally Posted by FARMBOY
His poetry was suitably beyond the dullards who censored 'news from the glorious front'.
What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds."As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her - her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye."
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