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When You See Millions Of The Mouthless Dead
"When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead", also known as "The Army of Death", "The Dead", or "A Sonnet", is a poem by Charles Sorley, a British Army Officer (armed forces), officer and Scotland, Scottish war poet who fought in the World War I, First World War. At age 20, Sorley was killed in action near Hulluch, having been shot in the head by a sniperOsborne, E.B. The New Elizabethans'. NY: John Lane Company, 1919. during the final offensive of the Battle of Loos on 13 October 1915.Prose & POETRY – Charles Hamilton Sorley First World War.com. Retrieved 21 August 2009. This, Sorley's last poem, was recovered from his kit after his death. It was untitled, and so is commonly known by its incipit, or other titles. It is generally interpreted as a rebuttal to Rupert Brooke's 1915 sonnet "The Sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Sorley
Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley (19 May 1895 – 13 October 1915) was a British Army officer and Scottish war poet who fought in the First World War. He was killed in action during the Battle of Loos in October 1915. Life and work Born in Powis House Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of philosopher and University Professor William Ritchie Sorley. He was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, and then like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908–13). At Marlborough College Sorley's favourite pursuit was cross-country running in the rain, a theme evident in many of his pre-war poems, including ''Rain'' and ''The Song of the Ungirt Runners''. In keeping with his strict Protestant upbringing, Sorley had strong views on right and wrong, and on two occasions volunteered to be punished for breaking school rules. Before taking up a scholarship to study at University College, Oxford, Sorley spent a little more than six months in Germany from January to July 1914, thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |