...others, again, it has an odd grotesqueness. A short poetical extract will illustrate the last type: And sat upright. While drearisome Arose the howl of...altar-crumb, The worms drew back into the mounds. Channel Firing His pathos is deep, sure, and strong, never degenerating into mawkishness or sentimentality....

...shall traverse old love's domain Never again. (1. 32-35) Hardy POETRY QUOTATIONS Channel Firing 13 oating home for ever left. (1. 1—6) 2 But misery still delights to trace Its (1. 1—4) 14 It's gunnery practice out at sea Just as before you went below; The world is as it used...

...Circumstance, in which voices from the grave are often used ironically with similarly telling effect. That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our...the chancel window-squares, We thought it was the Judgement-day And sat upright.1 Harrison's poem is an elaborate conceit: in turn, poignant, witty,...

...dumb to me With you away. Dear, come, O come to me!" From SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE, LYRICS AND REVERIES CHANNEL FIRING That night your great guns, unawares,...window-squares, We thought it was the Judgment-day 5 And sat upright. While drearisome Arose the howl of wakened hounds: The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,...

...temps de la nostalgie porte en filigrane 1'empreinte de la modernite absurde et de 1'historicite : That night your great guns, unawares. Shook all our...We thought it was the Judgment-day And sat upright ... Till God called, 'No; It's gunnery practice out at sea Just as before you went below; The world...

...tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? RUDYARD KIPLING ENGLISH (1865-1936) Channel Firing That night your great guns, unawares,...altar-crumb, The worms drew back into the mounds, PUBLIC MOMENTS AND ULTIMATE MATTERS The glebe cow drooled. Till God called, 'No; It's gunnery practice...

...and this was scarcely odd, because they'd eaten every one. Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) Channel firing1 That night your great guns, unawares, shook all our...the chancel window-squares, we thought it was the |udgement-day and sat upright. While drearisome arose the howl of wakened hounds: the mouse let fall...

...continues in the grave, and in paradoxically setting that extension of temporal existence in the past: That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our...We thought it was the Judgment-day And sat upright. The central purpose of the poem is to focus on the present, as described by God: 'The world is as it...

...The speaker is one of the skeletons, who in the opening line addresses the reader in inclusive blame: 'That night your great guns, unawares, / Shook all our coffins as we lay' (CP, 287). The closing conversations of the disturbed dead register their despair of human progress...