Scars upon my heart key poems
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Education
Poem is bitter at ignorant women, believes we have recorded history wrong
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Tragic realisation of the horrors- “Just row after row of irregular beds, like a poor man’s vegetable plot”
Parson’s Job
Confrontational, expressing anger
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“Father Buckley had elected to be with them” “mandear” “the priest openly wept”
Lament of the Demobilised
Resentful of how society treated veterans
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“Only a medal left to clank into a biscuit tin with other cherished nonsense” 35 and Willie’s father “He was a man of five foot six who had seen a thousand deaths, Now he stood an inch away from the source of childhood comfort”
Lamplight
Personal loss and grief, but they didn’t die in vain
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Gretta and Willie “It broke my heart to read it”
Anniversary of the Great Retreat
Compassionate and patriotic- honouring them