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NOT DEAD by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES

Poet Analysis

First Line: WALKING THROUGH TREES TO COOL MY HEAT AND PAIN
Last Line: BREAKS HIS SLOW SMILE.
Subject(s): THOMAS, DAVID; WORLD WAR I; FIRST WORLD WAR;

WALKING through trees to cool my heat and pain,
I know that David's with me here again.
All that is simple, happy, strong, he is.
Caressingly I stroke
Rough bark of the friendly oak.
A brook goes bubbling by: the voice is his.
Turf burns with pleasant smoke;
I laugh at chaffinch and at primroses.
All that is simple, happy, strong, he is.
Over the whole wood in a little while
Breaks his slow smile.



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