Selected Poems


Leído por Bruce Kachuk

Siegfried Sassoon, best known for his outspoken opinions on the futility of war, is portrayed in these poems as an observer, an observer of the wonder and beauty of life and an admirer of innocence, the innocence of youth, of nature, of all that remains as yet unexposed to the realism of mankind's brutality, inhumanity and penchant for armed conflict to assuage a mad hunger for vengeance.

This set of poems explores aspects of Sassoon that are essential in an attempt to understand the soldier, lover and humanitarian that he was. Foremost a warrior, he was a decorated fighter who would discover on the battlefield a grim microcosm of life itself and be compelled to put into words his observations. He was also a lover who portrayed in his poems the virtuousness of youth and the beauty of nature, but ever lurking beneath the surface in these portrayals was a darkness, a foreboding, an inevitability that the innocence he observed would soon be followed by the disillusionment he himself had experienced. Sassoon was all too familiar with the soldier's obligation to kill or be killed and sense of patriotic duty, but he was also familiar - and intimately so - with the effect that deprivation, loss, loneliness, agony and exhaustion can have on even the most resilient of souls.

This is a collection of poems about war and its atrocities, but it is also a collection of a poet's thoughts about the evolution of a human being - the progression of a man from the idealism of youth to one hardened by the mental and physical scars of combat. It is a journey from dream to disillusion, from idealism to despair, from beauty to horror - all expertly represented in these poems of exploration and introspection, "For I am lone, a dweller among men / Hungered for what my heart shall never say."
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk
(1 hr 34 min)

Capítulos

Before Day 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
South Wind 1:04 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Morning-Land 0:52 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
A Child's Prayer 0:53 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Dryads 0:58 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Noah 1:08 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Daybreak in a Garden 1:08 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Night-Piece 1:21 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
An Old French Poet 1:05 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Morning Glory 1:10 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
A Poplar and the Moon 1:02 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Wind in the Beechwood 1:30 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Nimrod in September 0:52 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Wisdom 1:01 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Alone 1:09 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
A Mystic as Soldier 1:00 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
To My Brother 1:01 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Before the Battle 1:09 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
When I'm among a Blaze of Lights ... 1:10 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Dreamers 1:30 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
"In the Pink" 1:33 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Redeemer 3:11 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Wirers 1:24 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
A Working Party 3:30 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Stand-to: Good Friday Morning 1:15 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
"They" 1:11 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Base Details 1:01 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
"Blighters" 1:00 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The General 0:55 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Trench Duty 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Dug-Out 0:55 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
At Carnoy 0:58 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Attack 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Counter-Attack 3:08 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Rear-Guard 2:07 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Suicide in Trenches 1:01 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Remorse 1:14 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Hawthorn Tree 0:59 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Glory of Women 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Lamentations 1:04 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Effect 1:43 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Died of Wounds 1:21 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Autumn 0:57 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Twelve Months After 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Does it Matter? 1:12 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
To Any Dead Officer 2:47 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Sick Leave 1:14 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Banishment 1:26 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Dead Musicians 1:56 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Repression of War Experience 3:01 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Survivors 1:04 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Memorial Tablet 1:24 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Concert Party 2:03 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
I Stood with the Dead 1:17 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Death-Bed 3:30 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Song-Books of the War 1:40 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Reconciliation 0:52 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Aftermath 2:15 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Memory 1:23 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Together 1:12 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Wraiths 0:56 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Ancient History 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Invocation 1:29 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Idyll 1:13 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Slumber-Song 1:23 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Vision 0:58 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Everyone Sang 1:09 Leído por Bruce Kachuk