作者goniker (goniker)
看板poetry
標題[分享] Student finds Frost poem lost for 88 years
時間Thu Oct 5 22:00:18 2006
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1883689,00.html
一個研究生發現Robert Frost未公開發表的一首詩War Thoughts at Home
Ed Pilkington in New York
Friday September 29, 2006
The Guardian
A poem by Robert Frost that has lain unpublished and
forgotten for 88 years has been rediscovered by a student
in Virgina. The poem, War Thoughts at Home, casts light
on the development of Frost's first world war poetry. It
was written in 1918, shortly after his good friend, Edward
Thomas, died in the trenches of France.
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War Thoughts at Home is set in a snow-bound house at the
time of the first world war. Some blue jays are fighting
outside the back door - "this flurry of bird war". The
woman of the house is disturbed from her sewing and goes
to the window. The birds fall silent, and in the next
stanza one bird says to the other: "We must watch our
chance/ And escape one by one/ Though the fight is no
more done/ Than the war is in France." The woman thinks
of the winter camps "where soldiers for France are made",
then draws the shades. Outside the sheds look like "cars
that long have lain/ Dead on a side track".
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