War Poets - WWI (Fandom 50 - War Poets)
Sep. 9th, 2023 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitI've just been on a tour looking at some of the war poets of WWI and WWII and also some of the other writings at the time, as well as subsequent films. I'm therefore going to post some of my photos over the next few days.
I've had an interest in reading some of the war poets for a number of years, so the opportunity to visit where they fought and some died was an opportunity I didn't want to miss. There's always a sense of how much more they could have written had they not died, but even more, seeing the graves of so many who died while still in their teens, there's an awareness of how many never even had the opportunity to become poets or anything else.
We began with Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, both of whom fought at Mametz Woods:
Memorial to the Welsh troops who fought there:
From there we went to Thiepval to the memorial to those who fought in the Somme and have no known grave, as well as where very many were buried.
After which we visited the Sambre-Oise canal, where Wilfred Owen died:
I've had an interest in reading some of the war poets for a number of years, so the opportunity to visit where they fought and some died was an opportunity I didn't want to miss. There's always a sense of how much more they could have written had they not died, but even more, seeing the graves of so many who died while still in their teens, there's an awareness of how many never even had the opportunity to become poets or anything else.
We began with Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, both of whom fought at Mametz Woods:
Memorial to the Welsh troops who fought there:
From there we went to Thiepval to the memorial to those who fought in the Somme and have no known grave, as well as where very many were buried.
After which we visited the Sambre-Oise canal, where Wilfred Owen died:
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Date: 2023-09-10 07:56 pm (UTC)I knew that Robert Graves fought in the First World War, but I didn't know much beyond that. The memorial to the Welsh troops is beautiful. I'm not sure if I'd seen any photos of the memorial in Thiepval before. I really like your photos of the Sambre-Oise canal and Wilfred Owen's grave.
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Date: 2023-09-10 08:43 pm (UTC)I've just ordered a copy of Graves book 'Goodbye to All That', so I should find out more about Graves.
And thank you, I'm delighted you like the photos.