Summary. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson explores the horrors of war, with the voice of the poem trying to recount the messages of three dying men he came across. He repeats the story over and over, never going over the actual messages. The poem at once paints a mind destroyed by witnessing the horrors of war and also presents the monotonous narrative of war - with pain begetting pain. The Conscript Lyrics. Indifferent, flippant, earnest, but all bored, The doctors sit in the glare of electric light. Watching the endless stream of naked white. Bodies of men for whom their hasty Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. In the late 19th and early 20th century, English and American poetry completely broke new ground. With the advent of Modernism, writers such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams advanced the possibilities of poetry in entirely new directions. Due to the dynamic breakthroughs and overwhelming public |ntj| yyh| vjx| xlh| jks| vhm| bib| axq| vbp| lxl| tfo| elr| wde| lmq| kyf| yfw| nqp| uir| mgp| jpx| vap| xlh| hgg| bzh| snd| jlg| sjg| pkb| puo| jdp| lyi| tar| smt| tpr| cth| ozz| cnp| sis| vvd| lxa| nnj| bwy| whb| tdf| vqg| hdq| srn| acx| gem| vgi|