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War-Wise and Other Poems

Others are more reflective and address the effect the Holocaust had on his eight-year-old mind.

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In Ghosts, Murray combines the innocence of childhood with the violence of war. In Sunday School, we sometimes drew Pictures whose innocence shone through The spattered lines of gunshot fire That dotted and dashed each page entire Until, on the page, a Messerschmidt Was finally and firmly hit And fell in flames into the blue Of our crayond sea; we drew no crew.


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The second collection, One Hundred Mood Studies, contains a set of short, stand-alone, rhymed sonnets, each expressing a modern-day emotional conflict. Exercises in the craft of formal writing, these poems provide an outlet for everyday shifts in emotions. Read on your iOS and Android devices Get more info.

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Wisdom And War - Poem by Langston Hughes

Additional information Publisher iUniverse. Content protection This content is DRM free. Additional terms Terms of transaction. With the exception of a few sentences from an early essay, these prose passages are all taken from familiar letters.

To the present edition a few notes have been appended, in which some topical allusions are explained and what is known about the origin of the separate pieces is told. The frontispiece is from a drawing in chalks by Mr Cecil Jameson.


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Of the author personally, and of what he was to his family and his friends, I do not speak. Yet I may quote the phrase used by a German lady in whose house he had been living for three months. I may also put on record here the main facts concerning his short life. He was born at Old Aberdeen on 19th May His father was then a professor in the University of Aberdeen, and he was of Scottish descent on both sides.

From onwards his home was in Cambridge.

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He was educated at Marlborough College, which he entered in September and left in December , after obtaining a scholarship at University College, Oxford. Owing to the war he never went into residence at the University. After leaving school he spent a little more than six months in Germany, first at Schwerin in Mecklenburg and afterwards, for the summer session, at the University of Jena. He was on a walking tour on the banks of the Moselle when the European war broke out.

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He was put in prison at Trier on the 2nd August, but released the same night with orders to leave the country. After some adventures he reached home on the 6th, and at once applied for a commission in the army.

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He was sent to France with his battalion on 30th May , and served for some months in the trenches round Ploegsteert. Shortly after he had entered upon his life there, a suggestion was made to him about printing a slim volume of verse. But he put the suggestion aside as premature.