Selected Poems

1. First read through the table of contents and choose poems whose titles or opening lines attract you for close reading.
2. After finishing each poem, note the imagery and mood in one or two sentences for later review.
3. Look up the historical background of early First World War Britain to understand the period's tone in the poems.
4. Read aloud to feel the rhythm and rhyme of the originals; there is no need to translate word by word.

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