To Good Guys Dead Poem by Ernest Hemingway
To Good Guys Dead
They sucked us in;
King and country,
Christ Almighty
And the rest.
Patriotism,
Democracy,
Honor-
Words and phrases,
They either bitched or killed us.
In 'A Farewell to Arms', Hemingway says: '' abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates ''.
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4/26/2024 12:07:00 AM # 1.0.0.1119
these Hemingway's poems remember me (a bit) some of Ungaretti's poetry..