51530: Returning, we hear the larks

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posted on 2024-05-02, 18:52 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Draft in pencil, with pencil alterations. In line 13 Isaac Rosenberg has extended the tail of the 'n' in 'man's', so that the line becomes 'Like a blind man dreams on the sand.' He has clearly highlighted stanza divisions by drawing lines of pencil dots.

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Identifier

1490.jpg | IRIWM_1_249.jpg

Subject

Allied Forces | Fighting Men | Home Front

Creator

Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)

Date

1917

Date Created

01/01/1917

Temporal Date

31/12/1917

Spatial

France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Imperial War Museum / The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate

Collection ID

IR/I/249

Repository Name

Imperial War Museum, Department of Documents

Repository Address

Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Poems Allied Forces Fighting Men Home Front

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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