Thursday, January 2, 2003

On The Somme Comments

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The noise of the battle is over
And silence descends on the land
There's peace on the face of that soldier
We see lying there on the sand
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Esther Barry
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Erin O'Neill-Berg 02 December 2005

I love the way you express the emotion of the poem with clarity and precision. I can feel the sadness and the longing while aware of the youth and the waste. Line five might be changed to read'is' instead of 'are' to agree with the singular subject 'sound'. Sorry to be picky but I am an editor and can't leave grammatical errors (or probably typos) alone.

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