"Which poet wrote the 1937 poem which begins ""Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, It isn't fit for humans now""?"
"having ever written it"". During her visit, Mrs Lycett-Green presented Mayor of Slough David MacIsaac with a book of her father's poems. In it was written: ""We love Slough"". In 2005, Ian McMillan published a poem titled ""Slough Re-visited"" using the same metre and rhyme-scheme as Betjeman's original, but celebrating Slough and rejecting mockery of the town as unfair. Punk band Gallows, who originally formed in Slough, and whose singer Frank Carter has frequently expressed his dislike for the town in interviews, have several references to Betjeman's poem in their music: their album ""Orchestra Of Wolves"" features a song entitled"
"""Come Friendly Bombs"", and an earlier song entitled ""Swarm Over Death"" (released on the band's 2005 demo) features the lyrics ""Come friendly bombs/ And fall here now/ It isn't fit for humans now/ Swarm over death"". Morrissey used a similar theme in relation to the decline of British coastal resorts in his song ""Everyday Is Like Sunday"". In the first series of ""The Office"", which is set in Slough, Ricky Gervais, in the character of David Brent, reads extracts of the poem interjected with comments such as ""You don't solve town planning problems by dropping bombs all over the place."""
"fall on Slough""<br>""It isn't fit for humans now."" Lycett Green wrote about the organisation of these various events, noting the intricacies of the rail schedules (""How long will the train stop at Ruislip so that [the poem] ""Middlesex"" can be read over the tannoy?"") and being followed around Cornwall by a television crew (""I have had a microphone down my bra for almost two days now""). In 2007 Lycett Green was a member of ""an alarmingly grown up"" panel of judges to select a sculptor (Martin Jennings) for a bronze statue of her father that was erected on the concourse"
"The Dry Salvages The Dry Salvages is the third poem of T. S. Eliot's ""Four Quartets"" and marks the beginning of when the series was consciously being formed as a set of four poems. It was written and published in 1941 during the air-raids on Great Britain, an event that threatened him while giving lectures in the area. The title comes from the name of a rock formation near a town he spent time at as a child, which reflects Eliot's references to his own past throughout the poem. The poem discusses the nature of time and what humanity's place"
"of an age of transition, although ""Through a Glass Darkly"" suggests that he did not lack certain religious beliefs of his own, and in particular a belief in the afterlife where the struggle for virtue will be rewarded. His work is interesting to students of meter, owing to the experiments which he made, in the ""Bothie"" and elsewhere, with English hexameters and other types of verse formed upon classical models. Clough is perhaps best known now for his short poems ""Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth"", a rousing call invoking military metaphors to keep up the good fight (which fight"
"best-known poems, ""The Scholar Gipsy"" (1853) and ""Thyrsis"" (1866), the latter written in memory of Clough. The famous phrase in the latter ""the dreaming spires"" encouraged people to visit the hill and settle there. Three prominent poets lived on the hill, the first being Margaret Louisa Woods in the 1880s. She was followed by Robert Bridges and John Masefield, successive Poets Laureate. For a couple of years after World War I, they were joined by three of the war poets: Robert Graves - Masefield's tenant - and Edmund Blunden, both future Oxford Professors of Poetry (as Arnold had been) and"
"Thyrsis (poem) ""Thyrsis"" (from the title of Theocritus's poem ""Θύρσις"") is a poem written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865 to commemorate his friend, the poet Arthur Hugh Clough, who had died in November 1861 aged only 42. The character, Thyrsis, was a shepherd in Virgil's Seventh Eclogue, who lost a singing match against Corydon. The implication that Clough was a loser is hardly fair, given that he is thought by many to have been one of the greatest Nineteenth Century poets (but see line 80: ""For Time, not Corydon, hath conquer’d thee""). Arnold's decision to imitate a Latin pastoral"
"Cold Iron (poem) ""Cold Iron"" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling published as the introduction to ""Rewards and Fairies"" in 1910. Not to be confused with Cold Iron (The Tale). In 1983, Leslie Fish set the poem to music and recorded it as the title track on her fifth cassette-tape album. In 1996, the song was nominated for a Pegasus Award for ""Best Spiritual Song"" by a ballot of science fiction and fantasy fans, conducted by the committee of the annual Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF), a filk music convention. Cold Iron begins with Baron realizing that war (cold"
"The Next War (poem) ""The Next War"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It was written in late September 1917, and revised in July 1918. It is no. 160 in ""The Complete Poems and Fragments"". The poem is among those set in the ""War Requiem"" of Benjamin Britten. The poem is in a sonnet form and follows a conventional sonnet structure. It starts out with a quote from Siegfried Sassoon. <poem>""War's a joke for me and you,"" ""While we know such dreams are true.""</poem> The poem goes on to declare that death is not the enemy and that better men"
"The Tay Bridge Disaster ""The Tay Bridge Disaster"" is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet William McGonagall, who has been widely recognised as the worst poet in history. The poem recounts the events of the evening of December 28, 1879, when, during a severe gale, the Tay Rail Bridge at Dundee collapsed as a train was passing over it with the loss of all on board (now thought to be 75 people and not 90 as stated in the poem). The foundations of the bridge were not removed and are alongside the newer bridge. The poem is"
"The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) ""The Wild Swans at Coole"" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the ""Little Review"", and became the title poem in the Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections ""The Wild Swans at Coole"". It was written during a period when Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park, and the assembled collection was dedicated to her son, Major Robert Gregory (1881–1918), a British airman lost during a"
"is ironic in that Clough was best known for ""The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich"", subtitled 'a long-vacation pastoral': a thoroughly modern poem which broke all the rules of classical pastoral poetry. Arnold's poem is remembered above all for its lines describing the view of Oxford from Boars Hill: ""And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,/ She needs not June for beauty's heightening"". Portions of it also appear in ""An Oxford Elegy"" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Thyrsis (poem) ""Thyrsis"" (from the title of Theocritus's poem ""Θύρσις"") is a poem written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865 to commemorate his friend, the"
"""forward slopes point 102"". Shortly after the war his remains were reburied at Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery (14 km south of Bayeux) in plot 1, row E, grave number 2. A one-man play about Douglas and his work, entitled ""Unicorns, almost"", written by Owen Sheers, premiered at the Hay Festival in May 2018. Keith Douglas Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was an English poet noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, ""Alamein to Zem Zem"". He was killed in action during the invasion of"
"Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are ""Dulce et Decorum est"", ""Insensibility"", ""Anthem"
"humanity needs to become humble in order to escape the cycle of destruction. To be saved, people must recognize Christ as their savior as well as their need for redemption. Eliot began writing ""The Dry Salvages"" at the end of 1940 during air-raids on London, and managed to finish the poem quickly. The poem included many personal images connecting to Eliot's childhood, and emphasised the image of water and sailing as a metaphor for humanity. According to the poem, there is a connection to all of mankind within each man. If we just accept drifting upon the sea, then we"
"almost unknown. Posthumous collections: Van Hoddis’ poem ""Weltende"" was first published in 1911 and has been often translated into English. One of the closest versions—considering both, the verse form and the spirit of the original, may be the adaption of Natias Neutert. Weltende Dem Bürger fliegt vom spitzen Kopf der Hut, In allen Lüften hallt es wie Geschrei, Dachdecker stürzen ab und gehn entzwei. Und an den Küsten – liest man – steigt die Flut. Der Sturm ist da, die wilden Meere hupfen An Land, um dicke Dämme zu zerdrücken. Die meisten Menschen haben einen Schnupfen. Die Eisenbahnen fallen von"
"between January and March 1918. The earliest surviving manuscript is dated 8 October 1917 and addressed to his mother, Susan Owen, with the message: ""Here is a gas poem done yesterday (which is not private, but not final)."" Formally, the poem combines two sonnets, as it is formed by 28 lines, though the spacing of the stanzas is irregular. The text presents a vignette from the front lines of World War I; specifically, of British soldiers attacked with chlorine gas. In the rush when the shells with poison gas explode, one soldier is unable to get his mask on in"
"bomb in Northern Ireland. The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope addressed 'To all my loved ones'. The poem is common reading for funerals. To coincide with National Poetry Day 1995, the British television programme ""The Bookworm"" conducted a poll to discover the nation's favourite poems, and subsequently published the winning poems in book form. The book's preface stated that ""Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep"" was ""the unexpected poetry success of the year from Bookworm's point"
"T. S. Eliot. In November 1985, a slate memorial was unveiled in Poet's Corner commemorating sixteen poets of the Great War: Richard Aldington, Laurence Binyon, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, Robert Nichols, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Sorley and Edward Thomas. Some Irish World War I poets include: Tom Kettle, Francis Ledwidge, John O'Donnell, W. B. Yeats, and Katharine Tynan. Kettle's best known poem is a sonnet, ""To My Daughter Betty, the Gift of God"", written just days before his death. The last lines are an answer"
"drowned the third,<br>""Children should be seen, not heard!"" The only substantial anthology of Graham's verse is ""When Grandmama Fell Off The Boat: The Best of Harry Graham"". The latest edition was published by Sheldrake Press in 2009. During the war, Graham started to write lyrics for English operettas and musical comedies, including ""Tina"" (1915), ""Sybil"" (1916), the 1917 hit operetta ""The Maid of the Mountains"" and ""A Southern Maid"" (1920), and English adaptations of European operettas such as ""Whirled into Happiness"" (1922), ""Madame Pompadour"" (1923), ""The Land of Smiles"" (1931) and many others. His best known lyrics were ""You are"
"The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket is an influential poem by Robert Lowell. It was first published in 1946 in his collection ""Lord Weary's Castle"". The poem is written in an irregular combination of pentameter and trimeter and divided into seven sections. It is dedicated to Lowell's cousin, ""Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea."" According to the Notes in Lowell's ""Collected Poems"", ""The body of Warren Winslow . . .was never recovered after his Navy destroyer, ""Turner"", sank from an accidental explosion in New York harbor during World War II."" Section I describes the discovery, by a"
"Ploughing on Sunday ""Ploughing on Sunday"" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, ""Harmonium"" (1923). First published in 1919, it is now in the public domain. Interpretations of this poem have been both strictly metaphorical and philosophical. At one extreme is the suggestion that the poem is about the sexual act. The ""Oxford English Dictionary"" recognizes a sense in which ""to plough"" means to have sexual intercourse. Its most recent citation for this use is ""P. CAREY ""Jack Maggs"" (1998) xlvi. 167 Edward Constable had been..reamed, rogered, ploughed by Henry Phipps so [that] he could barely walk"
"Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) ""Auld Lang Syne"" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and ""Scots Wha Hae"" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well known across the world today include ""A Red, Red Rose"", ""A Man's a Man for A' That"", ""To a Louse"", ""To a Mouse"", ""The Battle of Sherramuir"", ""Tam o' Shanter"" and ""Ae Fond Kiss"". Burns was born two miles (3 km) south of"
"The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb ""The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb"" is a narrative poem written by Mervyn Peake in 1947, and published with his felt-pen illustrations in 1962. A sailor wandering in London during a World War II air-raid finds a newborn baby in the debris. He takes refuge with the child in an empty church, where it amazes him by levitating and speaking. A dialogue follows between the child, fresh from eternity, and the man mired in the temporal world. At dawn a flying bomb falls on the church, killing them both. The poem was set to"
"of the existing one. This opened for traffic on 2 August 1926. The old tunnel was abandoned, and during the Second World War it was used to store torpedoes. Following serious floods, which washed parts of embankments away, the line was closed for about a fortnight during July and August 2007 for repairs. In 2007 some trains in the morning rush hour started at but this was discontinued from December 2008. The line features in two notable poems: ""Adlestrop"" by Edward Thomas and ""Pershore Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class"" by John Betjeman. After departing Oxford station, the Cotswold"
"Suicide in the Trenches ""Suicide in the Trenches"" is one of the many poems the English poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) composed in response to World War I, reflecting his own notable service in that especially bloody conflict. Sassoon was a brave and gallant upper-class officer who eventually opposed the war, but he never lost his admiration for the common soldiers who had to fight it. Sassoon felt contempt for the political leaders and civilian war hawks who, safe in their power and comfort, sent young men off to die in huge battles that seemed futile and pointless. It was first"
"To a Mouse ""To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785"" is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in the Kilmarnock volume. According to legend, Burns was ploughing in the fields and accidentally destroyed a mouse's nest, which it needed to survive the winter. In fact, Burns's brother claimed that the poet composed the poem while still holding his plough. John Steinbeck took the title of his 1937 novel ""Of Mice and Men"" from a line contained in the penultimate stanza: ""The best laid schemes o' mice"
"Poem” from their album ""Black Holes & Revelations"". Prior to the first moon landing in 1969, William Safire prepared a speech for U.S. President Richard Nixon to give in case of disaster. The last line of the prepared address intentionally echoes a similar line from the poem. (""For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind."") This line is in reference to the first few lines of the poem. The Second World War fiction novel ""Under an English Heaven"", by"
"Miners (poem) ""Miners"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. He wrote the poem in Scarborough in January 1918, a few weeks after leaving Craiglockhart War Hospital where he had been recovering from shell-shock. Owen wrote the poem in direct response to the Minnie Pit Disaster in which 156 miners died. After his discharge from Craiglockhart and a short spell of leave, Owen rejoined his army unit (the 3/5th battalion the Manchester Regiment) in Scarborough. While his men were in stationed at Burniston Road Barracks a mile north-west of the town, Owen and other officers were billeted in the Clarence Gardens"
"There Will Come Soft Rains ""There Will Come Soft Rains"" is a 12-line poem by Sara Teasdale. The work was first published in the July 1918 issue of Harper's Magazine, and later included in her 1920 collection ""Flame and Shadow"" (see 1920 in poetry). The poem imagines nature reclaiming a battlefield after the fighting is finished. The poem also alludes to the idea of human extinction by war (lines 10 and 12), which was not a commonplace idea until the invention of nuclear weapons, 25 years later. The poem has six stanzas, each made up of a rhyming couplet in"
"Sonnet to Science ""Sonnet to Science"" (originally ""Sonnet — To Science"") is an 1829 poem by Edgar Allan Poe, published in ""Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems"". Poe asks why science preys on the poet. Science is peering, destructive and interested only in cold realities. It will not allow the poet to soar in fantasy or even to sit peacefully dreaming beneath a tree. In mid-November 1829, Poe agreed with the Baltimore firm Hatch and Dunning to publish his second volume of poetry, entitled ""Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems"". This volume was the first instance in which Poe published"
"most well-known poems are ""Changsha"" (1925), ""The Double Ninth"" (1929.10), ""Loushan Pass"" (1935), ""The Long March"" (1935), ""Snow"" (1936.02), ""The PLA Captures Nanjing"" (1949.04), ""Reply to Li Shuyi"" (1957.05.11), and ""Ode to the Plum Blossom"" (1961.12). Informal Translation: Changsha In the (rhyme) pattern of ""Qinyuanchun"" <poem> Alone I stand in the autumn cold On the tip of Orange Island, The Xiang flowing northward; I see a thousand hills crimsoned through By their serried woods deep-dyed, And a hundred barges vying Over crystal blue waters. Eagles cleave the air, Fish glide under the shallow water; Under freezing skies a million creatures"
"Boots (poem) ""Boots"" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection ""The Five Nations"". ""Boots"" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching by forced marches in South Africa during the Second Boer War (which had ended in 1902). It has been said that if the first four words in each line are read at the rate of two words to the second, that gives the time to which the British foot soldier was accustomed to march. The poem was set to music for low male"