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"Into Battle" is a 1915 war poem by a British First World War subaltern, Julian Grenfell. [1] The poem was published posthumously in The Times after Grenfell fell in 1915. At the time it was as popular as Rupert Brooke 's " The Soldier ".
The inscription on the stone was taken from Wilfred Owen's "Preface" to his poems and reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." [10] Today Grenfell is most remembered for his poem "Into Battle" written in May 1915, the closing lines read; "The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings;
Battle-Pieces is made up of 72 short lyric and narrative poems grouped into two sections. The first and longer sequence is composed of 52 poems that portray the history of the war, starting with John Brown's hanging in "The Portent" and ending with an account of the Confederate surrender in "The Surrender at Appomattox." It is centered on ...
Into Battle may refer to: Into Battle, a 2001 Australian novel by Garth Nix; Into Battle (play), 2021 play by Hugh Simon; Into Battle, a 1997 historical thriller by the British writer Michael Gilbert "Into Battle" (poem), a 1915 British war poem by Julian Grenfell; Into Battle with the Art of Noise, 1983 debut album by British synthpop band the ...
The poem is recited by James Stewart's character in Magic Town (1947). Passages from this poem are recited in Soldier Blue (1970) in lieu of a prayer after a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne. Lines from the poem is quoted at the end of When The Wind Blows (1982). The poem inspired the Iron Maiden song "The Trooper" (1983). [13]
The poem is based on the biblical account of the historical Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC by Assyrian king Sennacherib, as described in 2 Kings 18–19, Isaiah 36–37. The rhythm of the poem has a feel of the beat of a galloping horse's hooves (an anapestic tetrameter) as the Assyrian rides into battle. [4]
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Emerson's "Concord Hymn" was written for the dedication of the memorial of the Battle of Concord. "Concord Hymn" (original title "Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836") [1] [2] is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson written for the 1837 dedication of an obelisk monument in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord, a series of battles ...