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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BUGLER; A CASE STUDY IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR, by LIN DAVIES First Line: I can't blow taps no more Last Line: "and that squares me!" Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Music & Musicians; Psychology; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Psychologists | |||
"I can't blow taps no more," He says to me. (They'd kidded him outside the barracks door.) "I used to do it pretty well before— Before I played my buddy off. It's war, But don't you see? "The moon was full and white, And shinin' free, About the way it's shinin' there tonight. We started up, and Buddy got it right— A piece of shrap; it dropped him out the fight Alongside me. "We laid him in the clay; And it was me That sounded taps; there was no other way. ... I can't blow taps no more ... but say! I tapped a German skull the other day. And that squares me!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LETHE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A GIRL OF POMPEII by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN SONNET: 42 by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 130 by ALFRED TENNYSON THE ARGO'S CHANTY by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE FALL OF THE YEAR by EMIL BLEMONT LOVE IN EXILE: L'ENVOI by MATHILDE BLIND WAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY; WRITTEN IN ILLNESS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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