Posted by cricket on November 7, 2005, at 8:48:18
In reply to Re: poetry of WWI, posted by alexandra_k on November 3, 2005, at 4:34:20
Thanks Alex. It's been years since I've read any Owen or Sassoon. Last night my son was reading "The Great Gatsby". He asked what the Great War was. Strange how it was called that. I mean of course it couldn't be called WWI. But why not The Terrible War or something?
Sometimes it's hard though. Sometimes I dissociate when I read some of this stuff. Did you ever read Ian McEwan's "Atonement"? Some of the war stuff in that had me in a fog for days.
Not that I've ever been in a war. But in my dreams I have. Endless endless war dreams.
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