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NIGHT AND DAY: 1. IN THE WORKSHOP by ISAAC ROSENBERG

Poet Analysis

First Line: DIM WATERY LIGHTS GLEAMING ON GIBBERING FACES
Last Line: GRAZED THE DARK WAVES AND SHIVERING FURTHER FLEW.
Subject(s): SOLDIERS' WRITINGS;
Dim watery lights gleaming on gibbering faces,
Faces speechful, barren of soul and sordid,
Huddled and chewing a jest, lewd and gabbled insidious:
Laughter, born of its dung, flashes and floods like sunlight,
Filling the room with a sense of a soul lethargic and kindly,
Touches my soul with a pathos, a hint of a wide desolation.



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