PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Robert Graves was born July 24 1895 and died December 7 1985, 90 years old when he died.He was born in Wimbledon in south London. A novelist and poet who fought during the First World War. In his life Robert Braves wrote more than 140 works.
Enlisted in August 1914. Fought in the battle of the Loos and the Somme offensive. In 1918 he spent a year in the trenches where he was injured. Loos took place on the western front in 1915. Fought by the English and Germany. The British lost. Some offensive fought by the British and French against Germany. In 1916 both side of river Somme in France. Won by the allies.
I've watched the seasons passing slow so slow
In the fields between La Bassée and Betgune
Primroses and the first warm day of spring.
Red poppy floods of June
August, and yellow autumn, so
To winter nights knee deep in snow
And you've been everything.
Dear you've been everything that I most lack.
In there soul deadening trenches pictures, books.
Music the quiet of an English wood.
Beautiful comrades looks,
The narrow, bouldered mountain track.
The broad, full blossomed ocean green and black,
And peace and that's good.
The poem 1915 by Robert graves describes what he is going through in the trenches and how horrible it is for him. Instead of being angry the poem is actually very calm. He is trying to hold onto the memory of the person he loves and that is what is keeping him going.
I was surprised when I read the poem because I was expecting it to be more gruesome and about his experience. Instead it was romantic, he is trying to hold on to the memory of his loved one to help get him through the war. The poem still portrays how exhausting the war is to him but he isn't angry about it either.
